Experimentation Category
cut & eat
Posted on September 4, 2011 7 Comments
I’m feeling a little down today. In my life, food is a pretty accurate barometer for my moods; the worse I feel, the less I eat. So for this morning, I will eventually have my breakfast, but I probably won’t enjoy it. Which will put me at a 7.8 on the emotional Richter scale. The picture […]
my new love
Posted on August 19, 2011 5 Comments
My A3 scanner finally arrived two days ago. I didn’t want to just segue from my smaller scanner (which still holds a special place in my heart) to this one without pomp and circumstance. I wanted to honor my new and humungous scanner with a post dedicated just to it. So here’s to you, Mustek. […]
door|may 1, 2011 am & pm
Posted on May 1, 2011 Leave a Comment
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door
Posted on April 30, 2011 1 Comment
About a year ago, one of my home’s doors had to be broken in order to get one of my children locked inside, out. And now, a whole year later, I finally have a new door. When the workers came in to replace it with the new one, and proceeded to take the broken one […]
the lion & the chameleon
Posted on April 7, 2011 2 Comments
I was about to walk into my boys’ balcony to water the plants and almost stepped on this: nature’s little masterpiece. As a cloud does with miniscule droplets of condensed water, a dust storm presents us with its paintings in sand, there to be admired (and emulated) by us. So do you see the lion […]
a cup of plain white tee
Posted on December 18, 2010 4 Comments
Sometimes I get tired and I digress. I never stray far from what I do, I just do it a little differently.
frothy qutra*
Posted on December 12, 2010 5 Comments
I’ve been working all morning on three paintings so forgive me if I diverge a little. As you may already know, I’ve been working a lot with collage; and collage means glue. Glue sticks to everything and is amazing to peel off. So I peeled my dried up chunk of glue off the yogurt […]
paper building
Posted on November 19, 2010 2 Comments
I’ve started on a new project involving lots and lots of paper. As you know, I get quite distracted when embarking on a new experiment and I start thinking about things like architecture and insects. Paper is a wonderful thing, and often I like to shrink myself to the size of my thumb and pretend […]
Me
Posted on September 21, 2010 5 Comments
It sucks when you feel like you’re shunned. I know I am loved by the people who matter, but sometimes I want the people who don’t matter to me anymore to matter again. I want them to matter to me because they should matter to me. I don’t want to be rejecting them in my […]
Lub-Dub|The Drawings
Posted on August 13, 2010 Leave a Comment
When I started the video Lub-Dub, I decided to use tracing paper which I thought would be both versatile and practical (since I don’t use proper animation software). I also love the fierce crinkle, especially after being heavily sketched on (I did suffer not a paper scratch, but a vicious paper stab-never crumple up heavy […]
Birds & Bees
Posted on July 22, 2010 8 Comments
We had quite a huge dust storm a few days ago. The next day I found this paper in one of my plants. Just a single sheet of paper, blown away from its book, among other windswept jetsam and flotsam. I picked it up and thought: hmm, I wonder what bit of knowledge/nonsense has been […]
Why it’s Important to Play
Posted on July 5, 2010 7 Comments
I was feeling very organic last weekend so decided to go out and buy some untreated canvas and play around a little. I also remembered that I had two or three potatoes once destined for a hearty mash, just sitting around in the fridge. Who knew that this would be their destination. I […]
I Fought the Law
Posted on May 25, 2010 8 Comments
I fought the law and the law won. I also ate the cookie in the cookie jar.
Them & Me
Posted on April 23, 2010 9 Comments
I like to play. A LOT. But sometimes when I play I break things. And this time I broke my camera. I did manage to take a few shots before it fell and a couple after, until it zonked out completely on me. If you look at the black and white photo, the bottom right […]
A Poem By Reem
Posted on April 21, 2010 11 Comments
This is a tiny video I made, inspired by and ‘illustrated’ for Reem Al-Ali’s poem Untitled [lesbian]. I am including the actual poem below because to my horror, the poem is illegible. So sorry, Reemy, I’ll do better next time. Untitled [lesbian] Together they crawled into a left-out space, and made it their own… They […]
itunes on L[S]D
Posted on February 18, 2010 Leave a Comment
I’m sure this has been done a million times before, but it’s always good to have a camera handy when experiencing the itunes visualizer!
From the Bspot|How to Dismantle a 65 Kilo Crate & What to Do With It|Originally Posted July 11, 2009
Posted on February 17, 2010 2 Comments
A few days ago I received some of my paintings and drawings from The Third Line gallery in Dubai. The crate which carried my paintings weighed 65 kilos. The smaller one was much lighter but also heavy. To facilitate disposal, I decided to dismantle the crate piece by piece. The wood and foam were in […]
Black Sketchbook|Drawings & Scraps
Posted on February 4, 2010 Leave a Comment
These are three pages from my black sketchbook. I bought the sketchbook a few years ago because I liked the novelty of it, and I knew that I would have to somehow work around the problem of drawing on black pages. One of the ‘projects’ I gave myself was this one: I asked my friend […]
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