This blog documents two trips I took to Cairo, Egypt, in 2013 to visit my Armenian-Egyptian and American wife. Things were tense in this period as the reaction to the Muslim Brotherhood's new government was taking hold. Intertwined within the larger…
"Ashrama" is an immersive, multi-disciplinary installation exploring refuge in our daily lives. Through collaboration on immersive surround soundscapes, video, projections, light, art, environment design, sound stories, writing, and many other forms…
The mandala comes from within -- it is about layering and symbols representing love and community spirit and family and connection, but doing it in this ancient concentric form.
The mandala is the image that the community will be invited to come in…
A large arched gate loom in the foreground, straddling a serpentine road that winds its way through a peaceful and verdant landscape. The painting is very textured with layers and layers of 4 words- life, love, justice, and peace in Arabic, English,…
Sacrifice was painted in San Francisco after I returned from a 6-month stay in Israel/Palestine as an artist-in-residence in 1988 during the first Intifada. The images are from photographs and sketches of a soldier, teacher, the artist, a child, and…
This painting is no. #2 of the series of 'Exiled'. I tried to capture the inner feeling of those who are forced to leave their houses, families, friends, the most; their homeland. These feelings are hard to depict as they are very deep. How do you…
People leaving their country forcibly. The big cube represents the Homeland. They are carrying each other. They are leaving their country, but, their country will NOT leave them. We know that history is always written by the winners. Yet, for me; we…