In the performative drawing the sieve acts like a camera that captures objects while dismantles the drawing tool – the chalk. As the image is being built the tool is being taken apart. The concept ‘taken apart’ (or dismantled) takes a new meaning: it isn’t an action that leads only to disappearance; rather, it is an action that leads to the appearance of new shapes while changing the physical state. From solid to powder, from hard to soft, from unified to dispersion.
I am taken by surprise as suddenly I look up at my two paintings, Stone’s Gaze and Road’s Gaze (2015) and see the image of chalk-stones almost being mirrored. At the time of their making I was thinking of stones as a weapon, in reference to the image of Samakh, a Palestinian town that got destroyed in 1948, and to the two Palestinian Intifadas – uprisings (1987 – 1993 and 2000 - 2005).
YNG, Stones' Gaze (right) and Road's Gaze (left), Oil on canvas, 2015
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