alphabet soup } i is for steve jobs
Posted on April 6, 2012 Leave a Comment
…after all, isn’t he the one who invented i?
tattoo
Posted on April 6, 2012 3 Comments
When your sister is game, life gets a whole lot funner (and funnier). I’ve always had an itch for dabbling with body art, and I have previously graffitied parts of my own body. But can anyone tell me if there’s such a thing as a career in drawing pictures on other people with a marker? Because that’s what I want to do when I grow up.
mutla ridge
Posted on April 3, 2012 1 Comment
mutla ridge, 2012, acrylic and a little sand on canvas, 100 x 120cm *this painting is not complete. i thought it was, but it's not. still working on it
The painting’s finished. I’m also going to share some really nice photos sent to me by Nawaf Alali. The pictures were taken by Liane Al Ghusain and Alia Farid. Read More
a landscape in portrait } the filming of the making of two pictures
Posted on April 1, 2012 12 Comments
my new friend, the ridge
This morning, two film-makers, two curators and two artists headed off to the Mutla’a desert to film a teaser for an upcoming Gulf landscape exhibition organized by the British Council and, in Kuwait, the Contemporary Art Platform (CAP). So this morning, Hamad Khalaf (artist #1) and I (artist #2) met with Alia Farid and Liane Al-Ghusain (CAP) and film-makers Nawaf Alali (Nawaf #1) and Shaheen (Nawaf #2 [we were confused too]), and drove off to the North for an afternoon of non-stop painting, spray-painting, collecting desert debris, filming and eating yummy sandwiches (thanks, Liane’s mom!).
*I didn’t get a chance to look at Hamad’s work and I’m kind of irked with myself for not doing so. But he was perched on a little sand plateau thing and believe me, being out in the sun and sand painting is exhausting and really took its toll on us. And I couldn’t make the (very short) climb. Plus he was busy. Oh I’ll see it when I see it! And then I will definitely share what he created.
Notes & Doodes } Palestinian Cultural Center Spring Exhibition Planning
Posted on March 29, 2012 Leave a Comment
In commemoration of Land Day tomorrow, March 30.
in duplicate } the creation of unoriginal artwork #10
Posted on March 26, 2012 Leave a Comment
original in blue
duplicate in black
today i drew a picture
Posted on March 25, 2012 Leave a Comment
sunday's picture, 2012, copic markers and sharpies on canvas, 35 x 45cm
I don’t know what it is about Sundays but that’s when I usually get the urge to experiment and goof off. But I think my strongest works stem from experimentation and a sense of play. And this was a lot of fun. Especially with Instagram in my life. Read More
a mother’s day gift
Posted on March 22, 2012 7 Comments
ladies, 2012, collage and acrylic on canvas, 130cm x 200cm
Ten days ago, I was asked to do a very special piece for five special women who wanted to gift a painting to their mama for Mother’s Day (March 21st). I met with two of the sisters who gave me a lowdown of what their mother is like and what she likes. She likes gathering her family around her. She likes being independent. And she likes technology. And Apple. And iPads. I wanted to personalize the painting further with an incarnation of Eve for each of the women who are closest to the mother: that’s the mother herself, her five daughters, and the two grand-daughters on either side of the painting. I haven’t titled this work. I felt it would have been too presumptuous to give it a title, that maybe it should be named by the woman it was gifted to.
press } al-arabi magazine
Posted on March 19, 2012 3 Comments
Article in this month’s issue of Al-Arabi Magazine, by Ashraf Aboul-Yazid Read More
straight from the phone } away from home
Posted on March 18, 2012 Leave a Comment
I’m stuck. I’m away from my computer and won’t be home anytime soon. So what’s a girl who hasn’t updated her blog yet to do? Try doing it through her phone, that’s what. And it works quite well for me to update from my phone, seeing that I am a newly self-diagnosed Instagrammaholic. Tonight, I share some of my fantastic difficult-to-go-wrong photos with you.
al-arabi exhibition } arab culture in the diaspora
Posted on March 13, 2012 6 Comments
as soon as i walked into the hall i saw my girls to the left. this does them so much more justice than being cooped up at home!
What an exhilarating afternoon. I was like a starstruck fan waddling through Al-Funoon Gallery taking photos of artists I knew and others I suspected were! To me personally, The Arab Culture in the Diaspora exhibition wasn’t just about these quite accomplished artists’ works being exhibited here in Kuwait, but that my work was among theirs. I wasn’t quite prepared for the sort of elation I would feel being in the same room (two rooms actually; the Ahmed Al-Adwany hall was also utilized) as all these great minds. And then there was the art. After the initial shell shock of taking in the rich crowd of artists, writers, musicians and lovers of all things cultural, my eyes fell on the works and I remembered that this was the reason why I was there. In this post, I’d like to share some my favorites with you. I do hope you take a visit to the gallery to see the show for yourself.
The exhibition will be up today and tomorrow. Read More
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