photo by Osama Esid.
El Ismailaia, Kaser El Nile Cairo Egypt 30° 2' 58.94" N 31° 14' 3.53" E
Friday, August 13, 2010
Monday, August 9, 2010
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TULIPS THAT RISE IN BLOOD
of the flowers youth, Katayoun write in your poems
sands push sidewalls for collecting
the Raad o Bargh
paintbrushes in the hourglass
twisting down
man
in colored sand.
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paintings drawfar into the ocean
the water brownsun held under
born deep now in Minnesota
your new paper. as lovesongs
Miss America could have sung
a New Iran
and their tulips - portraits of youth,
stubborn Fall colors in blood
smiling
inside the year of life you
held inside a palette's knife.
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carving hieroglyphic art
the bronze places you've been dreaming
baby
thrills wrestling
the new freedom. smoothing the hour's glass
carpeting the deep Persian brown hue.
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my friend, Katayoun, she is a river below us,
ploom below the ocean
long thin white pools
will crest the shores tomorrow.
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Sunday, August 8, 2010
Where's Osama?
This current work is on display at the Second Annual Black and White Show/ Artwork
featuring creative use of only black & white.
Maple Grove Arts Center 7916 Main StreetMaple Grove, MN 55369 www.maplegroveartscenter.org August 9 - September 24, 2010
Opening Reception - Friday August 12, 7:00-9:00pm
Open Gallery: Mondays & Thursdays 7-9pm
The art work is a portrait of another artist working in Minneapolis - the "Monday Market" photograph of Osama Esid's work typifies our looming preoccupation with the Middle East and the Orient - it also creatively uses only black & white to identify the socio-political ideas about which it masks. "Where's Osama" is a colossal reinforcement of a statement on the scale where a title can allude to a different context. Asking where Osama Esid "is" is as much being part of our West's projection upon a particular jihadist Muslim man, as the thing it questions in our community that could identify him as belonging to a similar type.
I collaged a photocopy of Esid's "Monday Market," (skyline of Cairo, Egypt) whose original was currently on exhibit at Franklin Arts, last month, in Minneapolis. Osama is also a member of www.mnartists.org and a studio artist in the Castket Arts Building of NE, Minneapolis.
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