Filed under: airplane timelines, Crossword Puzzles, Notes & Doodles | Tags: airplane, bic pen, crossword puzzle, ink, Kuwait, solution, timeline
are we there yet?
I love crossword puzzles. You can leave me in a room with one for days on end and I won’t tire. Sometimes, however, my urge to draw is greater and I’ve never been one to suppress an urge. (more…)
Filed under: Mail | Tags: beirut, boutique, henry's handmade, jewelry, Kuwait, leather, letter, mail, sketch, stamps, thank you
you have made my ankles very happy
On a shopping spree in Beirut last week, my mom introduced me to Henry’s Handmade boutique. Inside, I met Henry, an accessory maker who works with leather, thread, coins and other fun trinkets. I regret not having my camera that day because in his tiny shop he had all sorts of relics from his childhood and these funky, colorful, spherical TV sets. Everywhere. But what I loved most were the details of how he conducted his business. (more…)
Filed under: Other People's Studios | Tags: agial gallery, beirut, hamra street, najah taher, studio, tamara al-samerraei
this is so inspiring to me. i love the details of how an artist works. i look at everything: the picture peeping behind the sketch clipped onto the easel, the masking tape left over from her last painting, the drippings on the wall, and the painting itself, incomplete yet ethereally beautiful
A few days ago, I visited the Beirut-based artist Tamara Al-Samerraei in her studio, which she shares with artist Najah Taher. It’s situated in a culture-rich area of Hamra off the Beiruti high street. When I got there, I heard live music playing in a nearby street and Olivia Newton-John’s Let’s Get Physical blaring from the insides of a tall building. Tamara’s place, however, felt like an oasis in the hodge-podge bustle around me. The Ottoman-era building which houses the two artists’ studios/office would have seemed out of place on this street if it weren’t for the trees around it serving as a gentle buffer between new and old, modern and beautiful.
As soon as I walked in, I devoured the place with my camera. Cross the bridge for more photos of Tamara and Najah’s little eden.
Filed under: dar al-funoon, Exhibitions, fairuz | Tags: dar al-funoon, exhbition, fairuz, gallery, Kuwait, summer
I am proud to say that Fairuz is now hanging at the Dar Al-Funoon Gallery as part of its annual summer exhibit. The gallery, situated in the Behbehani Villas in Sharq (see map), is open twice a day every day except for Friday and Saturday. Times: 10am-1pm/4pm-7pm
Thanks to photographer Khaled Al-Saleh and Simon Balsom for the photos.
Filed under: Sketchbook, Sketchbook Twenty Ten Two | Tags: 2010, bed, beirut, float, hamra, ink, isograph, Kuwait, paper airplane, pen, rapidograph, sketch, Sketchbook
