Tag: artist
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Clearing the Mind: Reflections on Athar Jaber’s Clearing
This work is currently shown in the public art abu dhabi biennial. Clearing the Mind: Reflections on Athar Jaber’s Clearing In our world today, we are inundated with impressions, references, and an endless stream of thoughts. Our minds buzz with ceaseless activity, and what was once a subtle and fine-tuned connection to our surroundings has…
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What has changed for you in Lockdown?
For so many of us, much has changed in the last few months. I thought it would be important to make note of some of these altered perceptions in case we forget. Perhaps some of these changes would be good to keep the process and results of as we move into our future. This video…
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The Unknown Beckons~
Isn’t every moment a step further into the unknown? We think we know where we are going, we have it all planned out, then life reminds us of the futility of our false certainty. I welcome the unknown, I want to live in the joy of discovery, to be surprised by life, to meet the…
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Welcome to My Home on the Web
This video was kindly produced by Yahoo and the Flickr team in New York in 2014 and it represents my artist statement visually and verbally.
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Iphonography? Really?
There was a time not so long ago when I thought there is no way for me to consider using my iPhone for anything but light image sharing if I had no other choice. Then I happened by chance on Michael a brilliant photographer and iPhone artist who has a masterful over his photography style…
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Day 3~ August 3rd~ Boracay
What is it that causes people living on islands and in remote places to be drawn to decorating their own bodies? Why are tribal people painting their faces and their chests with different colors? What specific purpose does that practice serve? a search in art about art for art… photo taken: a local artist detail…
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Day 28~ May 28th~ Cambodia
Chou Maily, 14 years old when I met him at CCPP, painted with so much love and so much dedication, that those qualities radiated out of his handsome face. I was invited to his family home for an interview during my stay and there I was awed to see evidence of his passion adorning the…
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Day Two Hundred Fourty Two, September 21, 2011
When the world quiets down, when the mind expands, when time gains elasticity, when the hands buzz and tickle, when peripheral vision activates, when a strange kind of awareness attends you, when you become so focused on the task at hand, when you are transported to a dimension you can only call ‘other’, when you…
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Delivering Maria’s special coaching message in Lebanon
Following my recent blog : http://mimokhair.wordpress.com/2010/07/01/a-message-in-art-for-maria, I had the great chance of meeting Maria Antouri again in her summer residence in beatiful village of Faitroun in the Lebanese mountains. Maria and her mother received us and were totally thrilled at seeing the letter from Mark especially the drawing that he made of Maria in her…