Jad Al-Ghazzawi

The visual structure in this experience seeks to accumulate the levels of psychological and physical pain, to create emotional meanings in the midst of the fragmentation and dispersion surrounding the ongoing genocidal war in Palestine across time and place. Here, I reshape myself, to cross turbulent temporal layers, so perhaps I can create a new space as a creative compensation for the pain I am trying to feel, or perhaps endure. A birth of this kind raises in me torn questions about pain and the future, and which one is transmitted through the other.

Four portrait paintings, that come within the technique of drip painting and injection on canvas after covering them with gauze and cotton, created in two stages, where acrylic colors were used to attract dust and sprayed with medical iodine.

Maybe here I can move between the edges without worry, making these visions different and more rooted in their imagined context; offering new opportunities to discover the interactions of war-weary faces.

Acrylic, iodine, and gauze on Canvas, 4 Paintings 50x60 cm.