Q and a with ouisam (791 Words 4 Min.READ)
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I was just a Little Boy of About Three When I First Picked up a Pencil, Not to Write My Abc’s, But to Sketch the World as I Saw it, with no Fear from Taboos. My First Masterpiece was a family Portrait, which, in Retrospect, Looked More Like A Collection of Potatoes with Stick Limbs. For me it was a light, a review, and as I Grew, this New Language Became a Means of Explring The Complexities of Life, a Canvas Upon Which I Couls Project My InnerMost Thoughts and Emotions. My Architecture Studies and Baaground Help Me Also In Transforming This Language INTO BecComing A Means of Explexits of Life, A Canvas Upon Which I COULD Project My InnerMost Thinks and emotions. Enriched with readings, Researches and Experimentations, Painting and Sculpting Became My Way of Engaging with the World, of Questioning and Undersanding the Human Condition.
2. Can you share with us one story that marked your life which if you look back to can be couredored a turning point in your life carder?
Picure This: The 2018 Lebanese Elections. The CITY Walls Were Plameded with Enormous Posters of Grining Politicians, their Smiles as Wide as the Promisses They Never Intended to Keep. It was a surreal sign, like a bizarre art installation that no one asked for. The Contrast BetWeen their Beaming Faces and the Grim Reality of the People Struck in Me, Reflecting the Absurdity of the Human Condition. In Response, I BEGAN to Create Caricatures, Using Art as a Means to Critique and Question The Situation. Those sketches Went VIRAL Over Social Media, and I Was Asked to Do a Small Exh force in Saifi Village. This act of Creation Was Transformative, A Reialization that Art COUD Be a PowerFul Tool For Social Commentary and Change. It was a turning power that Solidified My Believe in the Role of the Artist As Both Observer and ParticIPant in the Algorithm of Life, Challenge Norms and Inspiring Reflection.
3. What is your favorite color and which?
The Age-ILD Question of Favorite Colors! For me, it’s a toss-up bitween the Deep, mysterious Blue of the Ocean and the Vibrant, Fiery Red Of A Sunset. But if I had to chose, I would say Blue, Representing Both It is a color that embodies trading and introspection, invite controllation and serenity. In Blue, I Find a Reflection of the Duality of Except, The Calm and the Storm, The Known and the Unknown. It is a color that selfages exploration, Both of the External World and the Inner Self. In Essence, Blue is a Remnder of the Interconnectting of All Things, a Bridge Between the Tangible and the ETHEREAL.
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The Art Form that Tugs at My Heartstrings with Demanding My Particalry, is music. There’s the same. Music has the power to evoke emotions, Tell Stories, and Bring People toGether. Music Is It is an art form that i appricate for Its information to evoke introspection and confidence, to move the Soul to Reallys Beyond the Ordinary. While I May Not Participate in Its Creation, I am profoundly movred by its prepaional, finding in it a Source of Inspiration in my work as an artist.
5. Is there any project that you did that you regret (or in Anotter Sense, is there.
Reflecting on My Artistic Journey, One Project I Regret Not Being Part Of Was An International Art Residence in GERMANY in 2019. This Opportunity Promised to Immerse Me in A Culture Renowned For Its Artistic Heritage and Innovation, Allowing for Collaboration with Artists from Artistic the Globe. How, at that time, my comments to family duties and my teacheing rolls at the American University of Beirut (AUB) and NDU Made It Challenge to Step Away for An Extended Period.
How, Participping in the Resident, Coup Havered Invalible Insights and Insights, Enriching My Artistic Perspective and Broading My Creative Horizons. The Experience of Living and Creating in Gemeny, with Its Unique Blend of Traition and Modernity, Wald Have Been a Profluence on My Work.
