more photos from dar.nur
Posted on December 15, 2011 Leave a Comment
someone needs to build a train track from my place to dar.nur. a train wouldn't hurt either. i spy. a little blue book
I took another trip to dar.nur this afternoon. I must admit, it was business, but I just can’t help hanging around and taking photos. The place is teeming with beautiful objects. A wonderful place to award yourself an allowance and go nuts! Read More
my books & postcards at dar.nur
Posted on December 14, 2011 Leave a Comment
body parts standing nice and tall at dar.nur
I have delivered some copies of my book Body Parts to one of my favorite shops in Kuwait, dar.nur. I also took ten of my framed postcards. dar.nur is the perfect place to go this time of year for fine gifts you won’t find anywhere else in Kuwait. I do hope you give it a visit.
old lamp | new lamp
Posted on December 13, 2011 5 Comments
blah
To think I was going to throw this old lamp away. If it weren’t for a dream I had two nights ago, I would have eventually gotten rid of it. And because of that dream and the work of art I created in it, I now have a new lamp. But let me tell you, this thing was the most difficult object I have ever decopatched. It’s spherical, collapsible and spins on a moving axis, a true pain in the neck (literally). I did it though, and the result is, if I should say so myself, a lot nicer than the one I made in my dream. Don’t you love it when that happens? Read More
book one } body parts | first batch out for delivery!
Posted on December 12, 2011 10 Comments
imagine this under a christmassy douglas-fir
I spent this afternoon wrapping and organizing delivery of the first batch of my book Body Parts. I don’t know, maybe it’s in my blood (my mom’s a huge wrapping fiend) but I love fussing with ‘gifts’. I know these aren’t technically presents but the people who bought them should feel like they have just purchased a gift to themselves. Congratulations to them, and I do hope they enjoy the book. Happy holidays! Read More
five sketches yesterday, five questions today
Posted on December 11, 2011 4 Comments
can you jump rope?
I’d like some answers to these universal questions and I’d like them soon! Read More
prettygreenbullet reader interview } bazaar magazine
Posted on December 10, 2011 4 Comments
A few weeks ago I asked you, my visitors, to help me out with an interview for Bazaar Magazine by submitting questions for me to answer. The interview went online last week. You can find it here: Ghadah Alkandari in Bazaar.
I just want to take this opportunity to comment on one of my answers (the one about the best thing about being an artist in Kuwait). I must have been feeling extra catty the morning I answered the questions. There are some favorable aspects about being an artist in this country, the main one being the opportunity to exhibit and to publicly share my work with others-albeit a few. My reply was so bitchy for the sake of being bitchy and I don’t like that.
Thanks everyone for contributing and I hope you enjoy the interview!
a really cool birthday gift so early in the morning
Posted on December 9, 2011 1 Comment
a really cool picture by my copic-brother mohammed this freezing morning
I woke up early today and dove straight into my staying-the-night-at-my-parents’ waking up ritual of laptop on lap and checking my various morning sites. So I found this birthday wish on my Facebook page, by a young man I just met at my exhibition, Mohammed Al Mohanna. This is what he wrote:
Happy Birthday Ghadah お誕生日おめでとうガダーさん＾＾ , attached is a small humble birthday present , (a quick sketch inspired by your “PrettyGreenBullet” and the dots ) I promised i’d draw you something back! have a nice day :)
Isn’t that just the cat’s meow?
prettygreenbullet the second exhibition photos } mohammed alkandari
Posted on December 8, 2011 4 Comments
I love this photo. it sort of makes me sad and proud of my son at the same time. he really took his job as photo room organizer seriously. although he looks alone in this photo, he had the three ladies presiding over him
For every one of my exhibitions in the past five years, my brother Mohammed Alkandari has been there for me, snapping away. I always value his ‘eye’ and his point of view, and his photos never cease to surprise me. There was absolutely no editing done on these photos taken with his new Leica (which for some reason I want to keep calling Lycra) camera. Thank you, Moh. I love them! Read More
pgb 2 exhibition preps
Posted on December 5, 2011 11 Comments
a few of my postcards hanging nicely. leaving soon to the gallery to straighten them out
Wow. For someone who doesn’t like to abbreviate, I just slashed the hell out of my title. Sorry, both busy and still a little under the weather. Just wanted to share some of the preparation photos with you. See you all tonight if you can come. Remember the polkadots! Read More
chair trilogy } very, last chair remaining
Posted on December 1, 2011 Leave a Comment
This is my fourth installment of the Chair Trilogy. Think of it as the baker’s dozen of trilogies.
framing postcards
Posted on December 1, 2011 4 Comments
this is my framing station, right in the middle of my foyer. i borrowed this lovely table (and by lovely i mean homely on the outside and comely on the inside) from my mom
What a time to fall ill. Ugh! I’m not bed-ridden yet but it’s one of those things that if I put my head down to rest, I’ll be out all day. And I have so much work yet to do. So I’ll keep trudging until I won’t be able to function anymore. Or I’ll pop a pill and sleep. The latter seems like a more sensible choice. Read More
one palestinian meeting and a sore coccyx later…
Posted on November 30, 2011 Leave a Comment
Still ouching.
Book One } Body Parts
Posted on November 30, 2011 7 Comments
The Bejeweled Show } Soda Pop Bling | Totemic Flights
Posted on November 29, 2011 2 Comments
here lubna fuses her passion for the environment with her love for bead work. i knew coca cola was good for something
I haven’t had much time to visit the galleries this season but this particular show was important to me because not only are LB o J’zazz‘s Lubna Saif Abbas and Bettina Al-Bakhit good friends of mine, but I am so inspired by their hand-made jewelry and am a little girl lost in their bead haven in the middle of Shaab (on the seaside). Totemic Flights is the duo’s first showing of their ‘artisanal body adornment’. You can meet Lubna and check out LB o J’zazz’s exquisite jewelry yourself; just click here for the details. Read More
survival kit
Posted on November 28, 2011 Leave a Comment
Oh my God, what a crazy busy day. It’s going to be like this until Monday night, when I can finally hang loose and enjoy the show (yes, I do tend to be quite relaxed at my exhibitions). I haven’t produced anything today (well, not of the creative kind anyway), but I did drive around Kuwait getting things ready for the show, among other distractions such as trampolining with my crazy boys and sister, and climbing a tree. So I’m cheating here. I figure I need to put a post up because I’ve become kind of addicted to it.
- clockwise from top left: rotring ink, my isograph pens, UHU glue stick, my watercolor set and brushes, copic markers and cheapo nokia phone because I accidentally washed mine in the machine, canson drawing paper, a piece of newspaper in case i get the collage bug, my laptop, invitations to my show (not for survival, they just fit in really nicely in the grid), a stack including my journal, one of my other notebooks and a clipboard, and in the center the markers I use in my journal
Every Saturday I have a lady come in to clean my home. I rarely stay home when she’s here because I’m a little fastidious and I just cringe when I hear things being banged around. Plus I have a thing about strangers in my house cleaning my things. Anyway. Last Saturday, my son needed to be at his computer, which meant we had to stay in the house. So I decided that we’d stay in the TV room where his computer is. Which meant that whatever work I wanted to do had to be in that room. Which meant I had to pack a survival kit (we were going to be in there for hours as I asked her not to clean the room). So if anyone ever asks me what I’d take with me to a desert island, just look at the picture for the answer.
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