Politics
A Reading by Novelist Omar Saeed of Painter Shawki Dalal’s “The Room of the Utopian Huweik”
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Nidaa Al Watan: Color was never just for painting. Colors have always been a means of expanding geography and time. In his painting of the utopian Elias Huweik in Abrine, Shawki Dalal presents us with overlapping philosophies: the philosophy of place, the philosophy of time, the philosophy of color, and the philosophy of contemplation. In this work, the light shifts into color across the walls…
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