Kaleab's current practice explores change, memory, and the shifting aesthetics of urban life in his city Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s rapidly transforming capital. Like many African metropolises, the city has been undergoing rupture-like development, where familiar colors, textures, and atmospheres vanish almost as quickly as they appear. Kaleab coined the term ‘Gintil Get’ meaning ‘undefined beauty’ to describe his search for fleeting inspiration within these moments of transformation.

Through his work, he reflects on how city planning, architectural choices, and accelerated growth reshape not only the built environment but also collective memory, cultural identity, and the everyday coexistence of people. Nostalgia becomes a tool almost an escape to cope with the gradual, irreversible loss of a way of life: its distinct aesthetics, images, street chatter and scents, and the warmth of human connection.