I Draw

Overview

Temporary projects with permanent markers
I use drawing to organise knowledge. Not fancy or sophisticated, but simple and direct. Direct on the wall. The drawings look like graffiti or cartoons but they are not. They are my way of understanding and reacting to the world. Globalisation, 3G, wars, culture, morning coffee, bird flu ...you name it. I address political and social issues alongside little everyday happenings on the same wall. I simplify things and then mass them together. There are entire stories concentrated into one image, a film into one frame. That frame matters to me. Maybe it will matter to you too. At first you may smile. Then ...

In recent years I just moved from one wall to another, from one city to another. Different sites and different times require different drawings. I keep adding new ones to my permanent repertoire. Let’s see what happens in Sharjah ...


This project was part of Sharjah Biennial 8.