Friday, April 17, 2009

Statement
Women's Rooms

Houses of Memories

Remembering is one of the greatest things we do.

My time living abroad has been spent reflecting on and remembering my own life's experiences.

Living in the Middle East for over 15 years has given me a chance to learn to live with different nationalities, ethnicities, ideologies and religions, and to learn that we are not different in our basic needs of joys, yearnings and comforts.  It has given me a chance to reflect on my own culture, and to reflect how my background has influenced my life, my values, my choices.

I started writing down memories from childhood in 1995 when I lived in Saudi Arabia, and since coming to Dubai.  I found that I could remember more of my childhood by the houses where I have lived in my lifetime.  So, this installation is called "Houses of Memories".

The house shape is also my symbol for my spirit, for my soul, for the inner place where "I" dwell.  I like to think that the size of the house shape in the center of my installation is a reflection of how my spirit has grown because of my experiences living abroad.

Finally, the house is more than mine alone.  It is where each person "lives".  All of the different skin tones, patterns of dress, manners of praying, or colors of passports do not alter the commonality of soul and spirit; this is what I have found to be true.


Thursday, April 16, 2009

Partial View Installation, Houses of Memories,
Women's Rooms, Bastikiya Art Festival,
Dubai, March 2009
Partial View Installation, Houses of Memories,
Women's Rooms, Bastikiya Art Festival,
Dubai, March 2009
Family Pickled Secrets Installation
Women's Rooms, Bastikiya Art Festival, Dubai, March 2009
  Work in progress, Women's Rooms,
Bastikiya Art Festival, March 2009 
Partial view installation, Women's Rooms, 
Bastikiya Art Festival, 2009

Wednesday, April 15, 2009











Keep Secrets
Women's Rooms, Bastikiya Art Festival, March 09
Acrylic paint, pencil on canvas
30x30cm-12x12in