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From Drawing to Sculpture: From the Depths of the Self, Dimensions are Created"
Assemblage Art Scluptures Mixed Media Figurative Art.
Between drawing, lines, colors, and the expressive moments that my paintings have carried over the years, my works have always told a continuous narrative. It may have been a story, a moment, or a situation, but every painting has held a part of my essence. In 2013, I was invited to hold an art residency in Lebanon for a month, where I stayed with Syrian artist Reem Yasouf. During that time, before I began, I felt the urge to embark on a new journey—one that would draw from my experience with the manual arts I have mastered, such as sewing and embroidery, alongside drawing and recycling.
This experience represented a challenge for me in merging these artistic skills, so I began transferring the characters I drew into a third dimension—not just on paper or canvas, but as three-dimensional sculptures. I used threads, fabric, wood, nails, and any material that could alter its visual identity to create a new scene that belonged to the realm of sculpture, but with tools I loved—tools that intersected with my visual and cultural heritage, particularly the Damascene traditions.
In these works, I sought deep human questions related to the struggle between life and death, between dreams and reality, and between freedom and confinement. These works were not merely artistic pieces; they represented moments of internal struggle and experiences I had lived through. Works like "Truth," "Integration and Distinction," "Isolation," and others, addressed issues related to identity, personal conflict, and society.
But some works took on another, more complex dimension, such as those that dealt with topics like sex, desire, and existence. In works like "Free Kick," "Offside," and "Child Marriage," I explored the woman and the body as tools to raise questions about power, culture, and personal liberation. Each piece was an expressive act aimed at challenging cultural and societal values, an attempt to shine a light on aspects often overlooked or neglected. The materials I used in these works—threads, embroidery, and wood—struck a balance between harshness and softness, much like life itself, between the difficult situations we face and the emotions we live through.
These works were a documentation of a human life that raised questions about existence, freedom, and identity. The diversity of materials reflected the diversity of fates, situations, and emotions I have experienced, and each element of the work represented a part of this personal journey I am living.
In the end, my art is not just a collection of artworks but a documentation of thought, time, and emotions. It is a mirror of the human experience, searching for hope, freedom, and truth in a world filled with challenges.
Title: "Mother Sobhi is Waiting"
Medium used: Mixed media collage including textile, threads, embroidery, wooden matchsticks, colored paper, and acrylic paints. The internal stuffing consists of cotton and wool. The face is hand-embroidered and stitched manually.
Dimensions: H 70 cm × W 40 cm × D 25 cm
Date: 2013
Title: "Rising from the Ashes"
Medium used:: Mixed media using recycled materials, including an iron mesh square, dried herbs and flowers, textiles, embroidery threads, metal threads, a toy, small plastic animal figurines, acrylic paints, ink colors, pens, wool threads, and a bird feather. The body and wing are hand-embroidered, with additional stitching and body detailing.
Dimensions: H 55 cm × W 16 cm × D 16 cm
Date: 2022
Title: "Rising from the Ashes"
Medium used:: Mixed media using recycled materials, including an iron mesh square, dried herbs and flowers, textiles, embroidery threads, metal threads, a toy, small plastic animal figurines, acrylic paints, ink colors, pens, wool threads, and a bird feather. The body and wing are hand-embroidered, with additional stitching and body detailing.
Dimensions: H 55 cm × W 16 cm × D 16 cm
Date: 2022
Title: "Rising from the Ashes"
Medium used:: Mixed media using recycled materials, including an iron mesh square, dried herbs and flowers, textiles, embroidery threads, metal threads, a toy, small plastic animal figurines, acrylic paints, ink colors, pens, wool threads, and a bird feather. The body and wing are hand-embroidered, with additional stitching and body detailing.
Dimensions: H 55 cm × W 16 cm × D 16 cm
Date: 2022
Title: "An attempt between heaven and earth"
Medium used:: Mixed media recycling a handmade embroidered doll using wool threads, colorful beads, metal wires threaded with beads, nail polish, fabric, wood, acrylic paints, and dried plants.
Dimensions: H 23 cm × W 17 cm × D 13 cm
Date: 2022
Title: "Life or Death , Not Choice"
Medium used:: Mixed media,A taxidermy bird wing, fabric thread, a handmade embroidered doll using fabric and embroidery threads, with added bird feathers and an iron scissors.
Dimensions: H 160 cm × W 33 cm × D 33 cm
Date: 2022
Title: "An attempt between heaven and earth"
Medium used:: Mixed media recycling a handmade embroidered doll using wool threads, colorful beads, metal wires threaded with beads, nail polish, fabric, wood, acrylic paints, and dried plants.
Dimensions: H 23 cm × W 17 cm × D 13 cm
Date: 2022
Title: "Outsider"
Medium Used: Hand-stitched mixed media, including cylindrical cardboard, bird feathers, textile, wool threads, seashells, colored paper, and collage.
Dimensions: H 90 cm × W 25 cm × D 20 cm
Date: 2017
Title: "Outsider"
Medium Used: Hand-stitched mixed media, including cylindrical cardboard, bird feathers, textile, wool threads, seashells, colored paper, and collage.
Dimensions: H 90 cm × W 25 cm × D 20 cm
Date: 2017
Title: "Domineering"
Medium Used: Hand-stitched mixed media, including textile, wood, metal wires, tulle fabric, glass beads, black ink, colored textile, and metal beads.
Dimensions: H 55 cm × W 10 cm × D 26 cm
Date: 2013
Title: "Domineering"
Medium Used: Hand-stitched mixed media, including textile, wood, metal wires, tulle fabric, glass beads, black ink, colored textile, and metal beads.
Dimensions: H 55 cm × W 10 cm × D 26 cm
Date: 2013
Title: "Domineering"
Medium Used: Hand-stitched mixed media, including textile, wood, metal wires, tulle fabric, glass beads, black ink, colored textile, and metal beads.
Dimensions: H 55 cm × W 10 cm × D 26 cm
Date: 2013
Title: "Honesty"
Medium used: Mixed media recycling an embroidered doll with beads and metal, using nail polish, wood, acrylic colors, embroidery and textiles threads, and feathers.
Dimensions: H 27 cm × W 16 cm × D 6 cm
Date: 2022
Title: "Honesty"
Medium used: Mixed media recycling an embroidered doll with beads and metal, using nail polish, wood, acrylic colors, embroidery and textiles threads, and feathers.
Dimensions: H 27 cm × W 16 cm × D 6 cm
Date: 2022
Title: "Honesty"
Medium used: Mixed media recycling an embroidered doll with beads and metal, using nail polish, wood, acrylic colors, embroidery and textiles threads, and feathers.
Dimensions: H 27 cm × W 16 cm × D 6 cm
Date: 2022
Title: "Constraint"
Medium Used: Hand-stitched figurine within a handcrafted wooden box, featuring recycled materials, colored collage, paper, acrylic, repurposed cigarette pack, glass, soft threads, textile, metal, plastic, and black ink for facial details
Dimensions: H 130 cm × W 80 cm × D 30 cm
Date: 2013
Title: "Constraint"
Medium Used: Hand-stitched figurine within a handcrafted wooden box, featuring recycled materials, colored collage, paper, acrylic, repurposed cigarette pack, glass, soft threads, textile, metal, plastic, and black ink for facial details.
Dimensions: H 130 cm × W 80 cm × D 30 cm
Date: 2013
Title: "Constraint"
Medium Used: Hand-stitched figurine within a handcrafted wooden box, featuring recycled materials, colored collage, paper, acrylic, repurposed cigarette pack, glass, soft threads, textile, metal, plastic, and black ink for facial details.
Dimensions: H 130 cm × W 80 cm × D 30 cm
Date: 2013
Title: "Blending In, Yet Standing Apart"
Medium used: Mixed Medium Used, Recycled wool, wood, embroidered toy, copper nails, nail polish, and embroidery threads. media.
Dimensions: H 25 cm × W 8 cm × D 8 cm
Date: 2022
Title: "Blending In, Yet Standing Apart"
Medium used: Mixed Medium Used, Recycled wool, wood, embroidered toy, copper nails, nail polish, and embroidery threads. media.
Dimensions: H 25 cm × W 8 cm × 8 cm
Date: 2022
Title: "Blending In, Yet Standing Apart"
Medium used: Mixed Medium Use, Recycled wool, wood, embroidered toy, copper nails, nail polish, and embroidery threads. media.
Dimensions: H 25 cm × W 8 cm × D 8 cm
Date: 2022
Title: "Blending In, Yet Standing Apart"
Medium used: Mixed Medium Used,Recycled wool, wood, embroidered toy, copper nails, nail polish, and embroidery threads. media.
Dimensions: H 55 cm × W 8 cm × D 8 cm
Date: 2022
Title: "The Past is Behind Me"
Medium used:: Mixed media A variety of recycled materials were used in this work. I focused on creating new life for each piece by transforming its color, texture, and shape, then bringing them all together. I used many materials, including embroidered toys, and I also sewed and altered their features with embroidery threads, wire, dry tree bark, wood, and small details like a bird made from colored clay. Other materials include ceramic fabric, metal, canvas, and dried tree trunks.
Dimensions: H 145 cm × W 100 cm × D 30 cm
Date: 2023
Title: "The Past is Behind Me"
Medium used:: Mixed media A variety of recycled materials were used in this work. I focused on creating new life for each piece by transforming its color, texture, and shape, then bringing them all together. I used many materials, including embroidered toys, and I also sewed and altered their features with embroidery threads, wire, dry tree bark, wood, and small details like a bird made from colored clay. Other materials include ceramic fabric, metal, canvas, and dried tree trunks.
Dimensions: H 145 cm × W 100 cm × D 30 cm
Date: 2023
Title: "The Past is Behind Me"
Medium used:: Mixed media A variety of recycled materials were used in this work. I focused on creating new life for each piece by transforming its color, texture, and shape, then bringing them all together. I used many materials, including embroidered toys, and I also sewed and altered their features with embroidery threads, wire, dry tree bark, wood, and small details like a bird made from colored clay. Other materials include ceramic fabric, metal, canvas, and dried tree trunks.
Dimensions: H 145 cm × W100 cm × D 30 cm
Date: 2023
Title: "Witnesser"
Medium used: Mixed media ,Fabric, hand-sewn embroidery, wood with attached newspaper clippings from death announcements of Syrian martyrs, threads, metal chains, martyrs, threads, metal chains, Bullet-shaped metal accessory.
Dimensions: H 60 cm × W 30 cm × D 12 cm
Date: 2013
Title: "Mother Sobhi is Waiting"
Medium used: Mixed media collage including textile, threads, embroidery, wooden matchsticks, colored paper, and acrylic paints. The internal stuffing consists of cotton and wool. The face is hand-embroidered and stitched manually.
Dimensions: H 70 cm × W 40 cm × D 25 cm
Date: 2013
Title: "Witnesser"
Medium used:: Mixed media ,Fabric, hand-sewn embroidery, wood with attached newspaper clippings from death announcements of Syrian martyrs, threads, metal chains, Bullet-shaped metal accessory.
Dimensions: H 60 cm × W 30 cm × D 12 cm
Date: 2013
Title: "Isolation"
Medium Used: Recycled tree trunk, colored toy, nail polish, wrapped embroidery threads, rabbit leather, wood, acrylic, dried plant, and nails.
Dimensions: H 23 cm × W 60 cm × D 40 cm
Date: 2022
Title: "Isolation"
Medium Used: Recycled tree trunk, colored toy, nail polish, wrapped embroidery threads, rabbit leather, wood, acrylic, dried plant, and nails.
Dimensions: H 23 cm × W 60 cm × D 40 cm
Date: 2022
Title: "Isolation"
Medium Used: Recycled tree trunk, colored toy, nail polish, wrapped embroidery threads, rabbit leather, wood, acrylic, dried plant, and nails.
Dimensions: H 23 cm × W 60 cm × D 40 cm
Date: 2022
Title: "Everything is Possible and Transient"
This piece is an installation in which I collected and recycled wooden frames to create a visual scene composed of wings in different sizes. These wings are made from bird feathers that I gathered over a year from forests and roads, then stitched them together as a symbol of continuous hope and strength, emphasizing that the wing will eventually fly despite all obstacles.
In addition to the wings, I used transparent fabrics, such as tulle, which represent purity and fragility, alongside an old music cylinder symbolizing sound as a tool for communication and listening. Rabbit skin symbolizes hunting, an allegory for the violence and power that often dominate humans in their quest for survival. Furthermore, I created feet from sheer cotton fabric, symbolizing inner strength in every step towards the future, even if those steps are fragile or filled with challenges.
Additionally, I placed a black-painted children's chair with figures made from black metal wires, watching the scene with eyes filled with concern and caution, as if bearing the weight of the future.
This work is an attempt to create a visual scene characterized by shades of gray, black, and white, reflecting the different impacts of human life. As humans, we all live on this earth, each with our role, but this role should never be subjected to authority. The core message is that everything is possible, and change is an inherent part of the endless journey of life.
Dimensions: H 190 cm × W 300 cm × D 250 cm
Date: 2017
Title: "Everything is Possible and Transient"
This piece is an installation in which I collected and recycled wooden frames to create a visual scene composed of wings in different sizes. These wings are made from bird feathers that I gathered over a year from forests and roads, then stitched them together as a symbol of continuous hope and strength, emphasizing that the wing will eventually fly despite all obstacles.
In addition to the wings, I used transparent fabrics, such as tulle, which represent purity and fragility, alongside an old music cylinder symbolizing sound as a tool for communication and listening. Rabbit skin symbolizes hunting, an allegory for the violence and power that often dominate humans in their quest for survival. Furthermore, I created feet from sheer cotton fabric, symbolizing inner strength in every step towards the future, even if those steps are fragile or filled with challenges.
Additionally, I placed a black-painted children's chair with figures made from black metal wires, watching the scene with eyes filled with concern and caution, as if bearing the weight of the future.
This work is an attempt to create a visual scene characterized by shades of gray, black, and white, reflecting the different impacts of human life. As humans, we all live on this earth, each with our role, but this role should never be subjected to authority. The core message is that everything is possible, and change is an inherent part of the endless journey of life.
Dimensions: H 190 cm × W 300 cm × D 250 cm
Date: 2017
Title: "Everything is Possible and Transient"
This piece is an installation in which I collected and recycled wooden frames to create a visual scene composed of wings in different sizes. These wings are made from bird feathers that I gathered over a year from forests and roads, then stitched them together as a symbol of continuous hope and strength, emphasizing that the wing will eventually fly despite all obstacles.
In addition to the wings, I used transparent fabrics, such as tulle, which represent purity and fragility, alongside an old music cylinder symbolizing sound as a tool for communication and listening. Rabbit skin symbolizes hunting, an allegory for the violence and power that often dominate humans in their quest for survival. Furthermore, I created feet from sheer cotton fabric, symbolizing inner strength in every step towards the future, even if those steps are fragile or filled with challenges.
Additionally, I placed a black-painted children's chair with figures made from black metal wires, watching the scene with eyes filled with concern and caution, as if bearing the weight of the future.
This work is an attempt to create a visual scene characterized by shades of gray, black, and white, reflecting the different impacts of human life. As humans, we all live on this earth, each with our role, but this role should never be subjected to authority. The core message is that everything is possible, and change is an inherent part of the endless journey of life.
Dimensions: H 190 cm × W 300 cm × D 250 cm
Date: 2017
Title: "Child Marrige"
Medium used:: Mixed media Medium: Wood, sewing threads, plastic dolls wrapped in colored threads, and nails.
Dimensions: H 90 cm × W 77 cm × D 16 cm
Date: 2013
Title"Child Marrige"
Medium used:: Mixed mediaMedium: Wood, sewing threads, plastic dolls wrapped in colored threads, and nails.
Dimensions: H 90 cm × W 77 cm × D 16 cm
Date: 2013
Title: "Child Marrige"
Medium used:: Mixed media Medium: Wood, sewing threads, plastic dolls wrapped in colored threads, and nails.
Dimensions: H 90 cm × W 77 cm × D 16 cm
Date: 2013
Title: "Red Card"
Medium used:: Mixed media Wood, fabric, tulle, brass chains, spools, threads, and fabric wrapped with sewing threads.
Dimensions: H 45 cm × W 30 cm × D 10cm
Date: 2013
Title: "offside"
Medium used:: Mixed media ,recycled wooden box, collage of paper, acrylic paints, fabric, cotton, men's neckties, tulle fabric, and various textiles. Fastened with nails.
Dimensions: H 85 cm × W 70 cm × D 20 cm
Date: 2013
Title: "Free Kick"
Medium used:: Mixed media wooden box, hand-stitched fabric, a collection of sewing and embroidery threads, acrylic paints, newspaper sheets, nails for fastening, and cotton for stuffing.
Dimensions: H 45 cm × W 30 cm × D 15 cm
Date: 2013
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