Aspekter

The still-untitled piece is evolving around aspects of personality. During the symposium with the Danish-Egyptian Dialogue Initiative, we crossed paths in both Egypt and Denmark, exchanging everything from lockdown experiences during Covid to visions of individual artistic lives.

The work, which is still in progress, is shaped by both shared conversations with fellow artists and my own experience of isolation. I observed various aspects of my personality bloom—and at times spin out of control—while I tried to find hope wherever I could. What left the strongest impression on me during the DEDI symposium was the idea of nurturing lifelong projects. It feels like the opposite of everything my own inner aspects usually urge me to do—and yet there are endless stories left to unpack in layers of the piece.

So far, I have touched on hieroglyphs that captivated me, the Ragnarök prophecy, the urge to escape a noisy world and retreat inward, the growth I feel both within and around me, and the devotion (the eyes) toward vision.