the lion & the chameleon
Posted on April 7, 2011 2 Comments
we have very harsh weather but somehow the storms leave us with a bit of art to contemplate. do you see the lion and the chameleon?
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 and the chameleon? Read More
Eve Shreds the Note|From Nothing to an Angry Bride
Posted on April 4, 2011 1 Comment
This is a video I made with my son, Khaled, from footage I had taken of myself painting Eve Shreds the Note. Actually, he did most of the work; I just sat there trying to be helpful but ended up hindering his efforts to get on with it.
Music by (in order): Elbow/The Birds, Aimee Mann/Great Beyond, Menomena/Evil Bee, Kate Bush/King of the Mountain and Gary Laswell/Farewell
Stories of Eves|Complete Collection
Posted on April 3, 2011 3 Comments
- eve takes a profile pic, 2010, acrylic and collage on canvas, 230 x 140 cm
Here is my complete Stories of Eves collection. The paintings were photographed by Jana Alnaqeeb. Read More
An Aging Ballerina With Many, Many Flowers|April 1st pm
Posted on April 1, 2011 Leave a Comment
she looks a little like me. i haven't arrived at that eureka moment yet
yesterday and today
An Aging Ballerina with Many, Many Flowers|March 30 am
Posted on March 30, 2011 4 Comments
earlier
now
New Painting|An Aging Ballerina with Many, Many Flowers
Posted on March 29, 2011 2 Comments
When I decided to do a dance series, I started off so gung-ho and art school about it. I wanted to call Andie Hicks (I think everyone with a daughter, niece or little sister knows she’s the doyen of Kuwait’s ballet world) and sit in on her sessions. Then I thought I’d get the same result by watching videos of ballerinas dancing. Plus I’d be conducting the research in the comfort of my solitude. I also realized that one of my most prized possessions is my imagination so to couple that with actual research sends the jiggles up and down my spine. I’m very excited about this new painting and-perhaps like you-I wonder who this woman will ultimately be.
appendix
Posted on March 26, 2011 2 Comments
forgot the stamp
You know how I’ve been feeling really sick lately? I got a little better, then crashed back down again. Yesterday morning I woke up with a sharp pain in my right side. I was on my back the whole day watching TV wondering what the fuck was wrong with me. Then a thought came to my head that perhaps it was a hernia. By nighttime, I was convinced it was a hernia and that I needed to see the doctor first thing in the morning. Hernia meant so many things: no exercise (boo and hooray), no more getting sick like this, and hello to being pampered for the rest of my life by my children who I was planning on making feel quite guilty for all the years I spent picking up after them! This morning at the hospital, no such luck with my evil plans. Read More
new series|new painting|nothing titled or thought through enough yet
Posted on March 24, 2011 3 Comments
this is my new painting as it stands this morning. i have no idea where this or subsequent paintings are heading, all i know is that i have this idea
After finishing Stories of Eves, I felt an overwhelming sense of aimlessness. There was, however, still the exhibition to look forward to. But after the opening, while shuffling my children, the gallery and nursing what felt like a stomach bug, I thought of something a visitor to my show suggested: my girls dancing. I didn’t think much of it until yesterday, when I started feeling significantly better and I felt that I could breathe, taste, see, hear and touch life again (I know this all sounds so melodramatic but so was the big bang so bear with me!). I thought: why not? A whole series on dance would open so many more doors for my girls. But this time, I think I’ll give them their own names. They deserve it. So here, my dabble with dance begins. Who knows where it will go? I don’t and I’m glad about it. Read More
Homes: Ghena El Hariri|Amman, Jordan
Posted on March 23, 2011 Leave a Comment
ghena called her yellow tape portrait 'sophie'. i really like the name
This painting was very impersonally titled ‘eleven‘. It was part of my Yellow Tape Portrait collection. Thanks to Ghena El Hariri, she has a home and a name now: Sophie. What more can anyone ask for? About the placement of this painting, Ghena said, ‘Finally I managed to send you a photo of Sophie “fi sidr el dar”! Couldn’t cover up the AC shaft opening. We didn’t hang the AC for fear of Sophie catching cold”. Sophie, you are in a good home. Congratulations!
Stories of Eves Exhibition Photos|Mohammed Alkandari
Posted on March 21, 2011 10 Comments
And another opening passes by. I wish I could have enjoyed it more but I was (and still am) in the midst of nursing what feels like a stomach virus again. For someone who takes pleasure in food, that sucks. I hope, however, that for those of you who didn’t attend, you enjoy the photos taken last night by my brother, Mohammed. For those of you who were there, I thank you. It means a lot to me that you came. Read More
drop
Posted on March 20, 2011 Leave a Comment
Most of the time I sketch my girl first and add the colored bits later. This time the splotches and drips were there already. I just took my pen and drew my girl around them.
prettygreenbullet 
milk
Posted on April 6, 2011 7 Comments
Whisper it out loud: