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the beginning of a new painting on a sunny/rainy friday morning
Posted on November 6, 2015 2 Comments
I miss my son Khaled so much. And this has nothing to do with the painting. Or maybe it does.
UK days } part VI
Posted on October 24, 2015 Leave a Comment
This part of my London trip starts October 3rd. On the advice of a friend, I visited Erno Goldfinger’s home on Willow Street in Hampstead. I didn’t take any photos there but I left the house with a sense of having been there before. It evoked feelings of life in Iran in the mid-70s, even though the home […]
until love } fifty-two
Posted on October 23, 2015 Leave a Comment
Listen to On Again, Off Again by Lemolo } My obsession with origami polyhedra began a few months ago. Now I have fifty-two of these structures lying on my floor and I won’t stop making them until I find love.
UK days } part V
Posted on October 22, 2015 Leave a Comment
This is the fifth part of my last trip to London (I’m posting a week’s worth of pics at a time) spanning September 26th to October 2nd. In terms of reuniting with old friends, meeting new ones and visiting family, this week was my busiest.
UK days } part IV
Posted on October 15, 2015 Leave a Comment
I’m posting the rest of my September/October ‘UK days’ retrospectively, as my laptop went wonky after only a week in London. I’m back in Kuwait now, recovering from my very long trip, getting back into the hang of things.
watercolor sketchbook } her blahs
Posted on October 3, 2015 2 Comments
We leave in nine days. We leave Anna’s place in two. My heart is breaking already, no matter how much I miss my children, home and family.
thinking about tattoos
Posted on September 29, 2015 1 Comment
I haven’t really told anyone because a. I was worried it was just a whim and b. I don’t really care for the larger public to know, but I’m seriously considering the art of tattoo as a career. Well, tandem to everything else I’m doing. I know I have my own aesthetic and my own […]
UK days } part III
Posted on September 19, 2015 Leave a Comment
It looks like we did a lot, but we didn’t.
UK days } part II
Posted on September 14, 2015 2 Comments
It’s been a busy few days since my sister and I arrived in London on September 10. You may notice that there isn’t a Part I to this, and that’s because I started this trip’s log with an Airplane Timelines post. I have very confused organizational methods.
airplane timelines } ba 156 kuwait to heathrow
Posted on September 11, 2015 1 Comment
It’s a long trip to London this time and I’m wondering if I made the right decision to stay for this long. It’s just that I’m at a crossroads and need to be here to know exactly how I want to conduct the next few years of my life.
the traveling tap 6
Posted on September 9, 2015 Leave a Comment
Last Sunday I decided that I wanted to create a sixth Traveling Tap for my upcoming Nuqat Conference talk in November. I made this decision at the eleventh hour since I’m traveling tomorrow to the UK for a month, and wanted to take it with me. I haven’t packed, am completely exhausted, and have so much housework left […]
until love } forty
Posted on September 5, 2015 Leave a Comment
It might look like I’m just playing around, but this is what I do when I’m stuck. My portrait of Paul Newman went very well until I got to the watch, which I have done and redone maybe seven or eight times now. So I get in a rut and I can’t do anything but…play around. […]
the contortionists
Posted on September 3, 2015 Leave a Comment
Sometimes I get bored. But it only lasts a second or two.
eve, me & the polyhedra
Posted on August 18, 2015 4 Comments
A few days ago I trekked to Muji at the Avenues to restock on color origami paper. Of course, as expected, they were out. But I found these square notepads with ecru-colored paper, ready and perfect for being stamped and folded. The new polyhedra are smaller, which I actually like. And I don’t think that Muji Kuwait […]
trouble in polyhedra-land
Posted on August 11, 2015 Leave a Comment
A couple days ago I decided to tackle the 270-piece polyhedron, so found this site for instructions. The instructions were clear and helpful, and I should have read them very carefully before beginning the challenge. Luckily, I hadn’t created new sonobe units for this structure. But silly of me to not have read the part about larger units […]
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