Multilayered thoughts / multilayered canvas

A lot to Read between the lines when saying "mode swings"..
A lot to imagine when putting these two words besides each other "pragmatism & myth"..
What cloud join them, if not a busy mind. A swinging mode.

Multilayered thoughts /multilayered canvas, is a project that has Been undertaken during 2014 & 2015. Using overexposed photography, made by my handmade pinhole camera as a surface for painting and mixed media.

26x47 cm (without frame)
40x60 cm (with frame)
10 pieces.

the turtle 

the rose

the dog

the girl

the elephant 

the hippo 

the horse 

the giraffe  

the lion 

the house 

In Uganda, the pearl of Africa

I got easily inspired to draw, by the enormous beautiful sights.

Thinking of James, the housekeeper. Meeting him every morning and every evening at 6 when I go for the 30 mins running ☺️.

He was wearing a white shirt all the time, smiling and welcoming..

Thinking of the drunk young man we saw in our second day in Kampala. He was walking very fast, very fast indeed, in a funny way that we stopped watching him whilst he was waving to the nothing..

A self portrait from the inside out.. That what I saw from the first moment in Entebbe, Kampala & jinja..  

Patterned sights and costumes, and even the nature was in patterns.

A self portrait after one week. A bit different, isn't it?

I think I have absorbed more the ambiance ☺️

That one, I think it's every beautiful's woman face I saw... May be I couldn't draw their beautiful faces..

The house 😚

all six pieces are: 33×26 cm

mixed media

kampala, 2014

while making

paper collage

7×10 cm

November 2013. 

Alexandria, Egypt

inspired by:  ''A dark day on the west bank'' Egyptian novel by 'Mohamad Elmansi Kandil'

7×10 cm

November 2013. 

Alexandria, Egypt

inspired by: cinema history in Alexandria

7×10 cm

November 2013. 

Alexandria, Egypt

inspired by: cinema history in Alexandria

7×10 cm

November 2013. 

Alexandria, Egypt

inspired by: family heritage 

Mixed Media Paintings

oil / found objects

2007

acrylic on corrugated paper

2007

oil / found objects

2007

acrylic on paper & aluminium 

2006

acrylic on paper & aluminium 

2006

oil pastel on papyrus

2003

Correspondence Harbingers

found objects

digital printing

2007

mixed media

2007

mixed media

2007

mixed media 

2007

mixed media

2007

mixed media

2007

mixed media

2007

mixed media

2007

mixed media

2007

mixed media 

2007

mixed media

2005

Ink on Cotton Paper - road sketches.

10×15 cm
ink on cotton paper
17 sketches were produced during road trips: Alexandria - Cairo - Damietta - Port-said - Alexandria.
May/ June 2013
inspired by sundry stories and situations.