Plane Sketches|June 14, 2010, Jazeera Airways Flight 256, Kuwait to Beirut
Posted on June 20, 2010 4 Comments
short trip, not much time, too many children
I finally ventured into my dad’s printing/scanning/uploading system and it all worked smoothly and now I’m a happy girl again. I feel so liberated. This trip to Beirut from Kuwait was quite swift and uneventful. Two hours and five minutes, an ideal time for any trip 35,000 feet up in the air. I’ve also sneaked in two ‘meditative’ drawings I did during my time here in Beirut. I got a little help by my daughter coloring in Seafood. Read More
Away For Ten Days
Posted on June 17, 2010 4 Comments
i want to go home
I’m in Beirut. I don’t have internet on my computer so it’s hard to update, upload or do anything new. So this is just a forget-me-not. I’m going to list some of my favorite posts for you to visit: Home, My Fourth Dream, and Them & Me. Of course there are many more that I would like to remind you of, but working with anything other than my own Mac is frustrating and infuriating. So feel free to explore the rooms on this blog. Can’t wait to get back to my routine!
Homes:Dr. Tim Sullivan
Posted on June 11, 2010 4 Comments
Dr. Sullivan sent me this last night. He spread the pictures on the wall but felt they were lost, so he divided them by this sadu an ‘old bedouin woman who made it’ gave to him a few weeks ago. He says, ‘I say hello to the children every morning.’ That is so cool. Read More
Superheroine|Chameleongirl
Posted on June 8, 2010 Leave a Comment
One day she was teased for her chameleon eyes. The next morning she woke up a superhero. Read More
Homes: Peter Duckett|Ma’adi, Cairo
Posted on June 7, 2010 10 Comments
you're finally home
What a journey. About a month or two ago, my high school Spanish teacher, Mr. Duckett, e-mailed me. He liked my painting, Drum, and was interested in buying it. Of course I mentally jumped up and down with joy because it’s always great to find a home for my girls. I immediately, however, crashed because I thought: how on earth am I going to get the painting to Cairo? The most obvious route was to have the painting couriered to Cairo, but we were constantly obstacled by two pretty words which make up one awful phrase: red tape. Thanks to my Uncle Abdel-Salam, I was able to send my painting with him. Yesterday, she was finally united with her new keeper, Mr. Duckett.
Cross the bridge to see the rest of the flat that my drummer girl now shares with Peter Duckett. Read More
Fallen R
Posted on June 6, 2010 1 Comment
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This is a lady who was on my wall for over a year. A few days ago she just couldn’t stay on my wall any longer so she took a leap. A few days before that, Jana came over to take some photos and said, ‘Hey, she looks like Reham.’ I agreed. And then she fell. It’s not you who quit, Reham. It was the sticky tape that quit on you.
Green Notebook From 1999|Part One
Posted on June 6, 2010 Leave a Comment
This is one of my planning notebooks from way back. As is the case with most of my notebooks, it was a gift. Unfortunately I can’t remember who from. It’s a lovely green made from recycled paper it appears. Read More
Cultural Re-Expressions Revisited|The Miniatures
Posted on June 5, 2010 4 Comments
the thief in the morning, 2010, acrylic on canvas, 25cm x 35cm
A week ago, I got a call from Dr. Tim Sullivan. He said he liked my paintings from the 2004 Cultural Re-Expressions exhibition, but that his walls in Utah weren’t big enough for the large-scale works. So he commissioned me to make smaller ones. Tiny ones, to be exact. Tiny for my big, fat fingers. But I did it, and really enjoyed working on the four paintings you see here. Read More
Traffic Lights & Other Observations|Screaming Cats & Japanese Moms
Posted on June 3, 2010 Leave a Comment
take me some place else.
An Experimental Video I Did Eons Ago
Posted on June 2, 2010 3 Comments
This is a video I made in 2001 for an exhibition I had at the Dar Al-Funoon Gallery. I recommend that you view this with music playing. It’s a pretty long video with mistakes and glitches. Therefore, also recommended is doing something else at the same time. Enjoy the viewing and non-viewing.
Sketchbook Twenty Ten Two|Five Sketches
Posted on May 31, 2010 Leave a Comment
Oh no I got my homonyms mixed up again! It’s ‘waist’ not ‘waste’. Been collecting too much garbage after the litterbugs. Read More
Art Lesson at the G (and Other Goings on)|May 30
Posted on May 31, 2010 2 Comments
where's eman? oh there she is!
Sometimes visitors drop in during my lessons with Eman. My sister-in-law Jana came through to take some photos of the two-dimensional Yasmine and another painting. It’s always fun to introduce people from my many different worlds to each other. As for Eman’s scarf, well, that’s finally done. The painting isn’t complete yet as she still needs to work on the background, but at least I can rest easy about the cat not shredding the scarf to bits. Read More
A Portrait of Y A
Posted on May 30, 2010 2 Comments
a portrait of y a, 2010, acrylic on canvas, 91cm x 122cm
*Photo by Jana Alnaqeeb
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