2021
Lost in Many Different Ways
Lost in Many Different Ways is a series of works that blossomed from an incessant feeling of melancholy co existing with my desire for beauty. I started by experimenting with the care it takes to paint a pattern. The five-flower motif is a simple symbol made of five painted strokes easily identified as a flower or the cut core of an apple. I played with the motifs size and coloring, once I established the design I painted the motif on paper and panels testing out its malleability in shaping imaginary environments I dreamt of and long for. No longer satisfied with the monotonous physicality of painting a pattern by hand, I moved away from the motifs constraints and expanded into the comforting gestures of life drawing.
Floating
Acrylic, gold leaf, eucalyptus and dried flowers on wood panel
Mindwalk : You get lost in which case the world has become larger than your knowledge of it.
Acrylic, gold leaf, Japanese paper on wood panel.
Desert Longing
Acrylic on wood panel.
Autumn Burning
Acrylic, ink, conte, paper, Japanese paper, and gifted leaf on wood panel.
Im still thinking about why Im running here alone, but the sun goes down near the endless horizon the sky is full of sunset. It started with orange then it becomes blood red, purple to blue.In the end, the sky became darker and the evening clouds disappear.
Acrylic, dye, paper, leaf and Japanese paper on wood panel.
After another
Acrylic on wood panel.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results
Acrylic on watercolor paper.
I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but there are a hundred million photos of sunsets. Frankly, they’re all the same.
Acrylic on wood panel.
سبح على خير
Acrylic, conte, and wine pigment on wood panel.
Oussama resting in yellow
Acrylic, charcoal, and Japanese paper on wood panel.
In the weeds
Acrylic, ink and wild flowers on wood panel.
Disappearing its romantic, I want to go away.
Acrylic, crayon, conte, cochineal ink, handmade paper, wine pigment, and Japanese paper on wood panel.
Poppy and Wine
Ink, paper, red wine and Japanese paper on wood panel.
Sarracenia in yellow
Acrylic, colored pencil, ink, and eucalyptus pigment on wood panel.
Amara in Blue: the color of solitude and of desire
Acrylic charcoal, ink and conte on watercolor paper.
Death Shadows
Acrylic, conte and crayon on wood panel.
Eucalyptus in grey.
Ink on watercolor paper.
One does not expect to get from life what one has already learned it cannot give; rather, one begins to see more clearly that life is a kind of sowing time, and the harvest is not here.
Acrylic, ink, Japanese paper, and eucalyptus pigment on watercolor paper.
Berber Town in Blue: The color of where you can never go.
Acrylic, Cyanotype, paper and ink on wood panel.
A few of my titles were inspired by words said or written by others and I like to give credit where credit is due
A Field Guide to Getting Lost (2005) by Rebecca Solnit
Mindwalk (1990) Screenplay: Floyd Byars, Fritjof Capra
The Disappearance of My Mother (2019): Writers: Beniamino Barrese & Malina DeCarlo
At Eternity’s Gate (2018) Written by: Jean-Claude Carrière, Julian Schnabel and Louise Kugelberg
Burning (2018) Screenplay: Jungmi Oh &Chang-dong Lee Based on the short story "Barn Burning" by Haruki Murakami.