Filed under: Home | Tags: acquisition, acrylic, cairo, drum, interior design, Kuwait, maadi, painting
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. (more…)
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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.
Filed under: Green Notebook, Notes & Doodles | Tags: diary, green, notebook, paper, planning, recycled
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. (more…)
Filed under: Sketchbook, Sketchbook Twenty Ten Two | Tags: 2010, black, ink, Kuwait, pen, sketch, Sketchbook, white
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: acrylic, commission, cultural, Kuwait, painting, re-expressions, tradition
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. (more…)
Filed under: Dreams | Tags: dream, homework, hula hoop, Kuwait, notebook, paper
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Filed under: The Book of Traffic Lights & Other Observations | Tags: cat, crazy, diary, Kuwait, lights, observations, rant, rave, screaming, sketch, traffic
take me some place else.
Filed under: Moving Pictures, Video | Tags: ink, Kuwait, live, pad, sequence, sketching, Step By Step, video
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.
Filed under: birthday wish, Sketchbook | Tags: birthday, dot, ink, Kuwait, pen, red, wish
