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 

Photo Assemblage

Spring Exhibition, Cairo. 2011
Pinhole Camera, B&W paper. 

A Stenope' workshop in Etsa, El Menia, Egypt 2008

School children of Etsa, a village that is 20 klm out of El Menia (Egyptian governorate in upper Egypt).

it was a very extraordinary experience for me to lead such groups and teach them pinhole camera photography.

This project was sponsored by "Siraj" in their program of the World AIDS Day 2008 (simple premise of spreading awareness of HIV/AIDS through art)
http://www.sirajnet.org/

cordially, I thank all who helped me in this project:
Aly Abdelmohsen, Mohamed Fawzy Elgammal, Medhat Nasr, Aurelia Frey and most of all Emad Mabrouk.