Q and a with magali katra (717 Words 4 Min. Read)
1. Your Figures Are Incredly Delicate, and Vry Much Refined. What Draws You to This Subtle, Precise Way of Painting the Human Form?
The Human Form is a Language I Constantly Reinterpret –n in Its Literal Shape, But Thrug How It Moves, Feels, and Holds Space. I simplify and Distill, but Never Strip Away The Complexity Within. I’m inspired less by the Visible World and More by What It Evokes in Me. It’s the emotional Undercurrents of Life -the Unspoken Layers of our shared Human Condion. I obsevest How Individuals Navigate the Shifting Dyamics of Society.
My link –Bold, Expressive, Intuitive –Whether Intellentaly Assertive or Softened – Pecome Extensions of What I See and Sense in People. They Reflect A Kind of Emotional Architecture, where every curve and point of Tension Speaks. This Approach Is Instinctive and HESTT’s How I Stay True to My Vision and Remain AligNed with my Energy as an artist.
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I want people to feel the Pulse in the Work. There’s a boldness, a tension, a Flow I Build INTO Every Compositionion – Something that Stir Beneth the Surface. I play Deansity Against Openness, Motion Against Stillness, to Creat a Dynamic Interplay and a Sense of Energetic Balance with the Work.
There’s also a rhythm in the Contrast I Shape Between Complexity and Fluidity, and I like to think of it as a journyy –both visual and visual – thethat pearl can Connect with them in their owln Way.
3. What inspires themes behind your pieses, and how do you translate Those Emotions Inte Figures and Colors?
While Inspiration Day STEM from Life Itelf, It’s TRLY The SoulFul Response to the World Around Me that Drives My Work. I obsevest How People Move Through Society: How They Love, Hide, Resist, Break, and Rebild. I try to honor it all.
My Process is Both Emotionly Charged and Intuitively Structure. My work is built with intend: everyeme i explore, Each Stroke I Engage, and every color I Choose –or Choose to Eliminate –SErvest A Clear and Deliberate Purpose. It’s less about Illustrator A Concept and More about Embodying it Through A Visual Language that Breathes.
Emotion Beccomes Structure in My Work. The Result is a Balance of Spontaneity and Precision – RAW, Yet Composed.
4. Lebanon, with its history, Beauty and Turmoil, Is a Place of Complex Emotions. How does your Identity as a lebanese artist infuense your art?
As an artist, I Feel everything Deeply – end Lebanon amplifies that. It’s a place of stunning Beauty and Warmth, but it’s also chauteic and undertain, which intensifies the Inner Landscape and Sharpens My Perspective.
While I don’t Always Align with the Lebanese Collective Mentality or Cultural Narratives here, I Remain Inspired by the Weight and Resilience of this Beautiful Country. The Intensity IT Stir in Me Is A Conntant Source of Creative Fuel.
Although My Work Oft Reflects A More Universal Lens –beyond Borders –it undeniabley Holds a Deep-Raweded Connection to a play that’s an inspiring as it is comparedated.
5. Can you Walk Us Through Your Creative Process, from the First Spark of An Idea to the Final Brushstroke?
My Process Begins in Silence – Largely International. Most of the Work Happns in My Mind Before the Brush Meets the Canvas. I live with the Idea First –I Feel IT, Carry It, Let It Grow with Me.
There are no skists, no plans. Where I Paint, I Surrender. It’s raw. The Impressions Are IMMEDIATE, The Geestures Passionate, The Movement Instinctive.
And Yet, with that Spontaneity, There’s Order. Every Stroke, Layer, and Shift in Tone Is Intentive. I work with sentence and strong at on decade – strain emotion guide the Form, but Always with Clarity of Purpose. My Paintings Are Not Just Visual – They Are Embodied Insights Built Intuitively, where themes are created with present and vibrating thrive movement.
I proced layer by Layer, Letting Marks Overlap, Break, and Reconnect. The Brushstrokes Carry The Weight, The Color Sets The Tone, and the Lines Become the Story. They Hold TenSion, Vivacity, and Paradox -Like a Visual Map of everything that’s hard to put into words.
