Cairo past and present / and its colors

http://www.fotocommunity.com/pc/pc/mypics/534951/display/2640088.

photo by Osama Esid.

El Ismailaia, Kaser El Nile Cairo Egypt 30° 2' 58.94" N 31° 14' 3.53" E

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/1646805.

photo by http://www.xflow.eu/

Carles Jr is everywhere in Cairo.

http://www.northography.com/authors.php

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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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http://www.northography.com/responses.php?stimulus_id=194#3451

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.

Raad o Bargh

Red, your flowers are upon the paved stones at the Antler's hotel and the four winds glow. Everyone asking what do you do? Isn’t it a beautiful day that begins:

When we are to drink When all the green is broke When there is no more money nor job nor rhyme, and yet, everything will be fine.

The rich and mighty can always be a little patient made of magnifiance, hearth fires and holocausts where women can go to hell and return. Our's is to be an inconvenience it is to be anything, like love.

So we chase these steps just across the lawn and into the birch grove as some day over the rainbow we are to be both mighty and fallen. Never have I been so full of love before with you my queen my ancient goddess.

http://www.northography.com/responses.php?stimulus_id=184#3302

Osama Esid at Art-a-whirl

From the bottom of the casket arts building,
you gave me the ghost you are angry with
I will see if it follows the expressionist form:

Does it look for the closed art scene to follow?

Believe in what comes out of one’s conscience
these are the daily disturbances of life
that manifest themselves directly in art,

and we honor these political prisoners.

http://www.osamaesid.com/

Corvo Brothers Nederland, Colorado

from Corvo Brothers Orphan Series... June 2009

In Orphans, we create dreamscapes that generate wonder. Simultaneously playful and sinister, these images suggest mysterious narratives in which children on their own make their own rules. Unexpected juxtapositions of the comic and the dark become refracted portraits of our own childhood. Each image in this series is a graft that fuses photography to painted backgrounds in order to create hybrid images that blend Victorian culture, Pop imagery, and the compositional aesthetics of the Renaissance and Baroque masters.

www.mnartists.org/Andre_Deus