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From the Bspot|Latifa|Originally Posted August 16, 2009
A year ago, my Aunty Latifa died after a long, on and off battle with breast cancer. I have a few sketches which either remind me of her, or were influenced by the way I felt concerning her at the...
View ArticleFrom the Bspot|How to Dismantle a 65 Kilo Crate & What to Do With...
A few days ago I received some of my paintings and drawings from The Third Line gallery in Dubai. The crate which carried my paintings weighed 65 kilos. The smaller one was much lighter but also heavy....
View ArticleFrom the Bspot|Seals in Kuwait|Originally Posted July 2, 2009
I was walking from my car to Bait Lothan the other day and my eye caught this. I did a double take. Seals in Kuwait. As I marveled at my luck in accidentally discovering these creatures, a wayward...
View ArticleFrom the Bspot|Plane Sketches|December 17, 2008, Emirates Air|Kuala Lumpur to...
I’m going to start posting my airplane sketches on here. These are drawings I do on a plane. Because I’m a nervous flyer-well, I used to be anyway-my sketching style changes. There is a purpose to most...
View ArticleFrom the Bspot|Plane Sketches|June 12, 2007|On Board Kuwait Airways Flight...
This was a short flight aboard a rented Novair Airbus 33o (I think Norwegian). In a tumultuous period of my life, I found peace at 35,000 feet. I was alone on this trip, attending my friend Dagher’s...
View ArticleFrom the Bspot|Plane Sketches|December 20, 2009|On Wataniya Airways Cairo to...
This plane sketch was done in my ‘Ramadan’ diary. Some may remember it. I love being up in the air, it really clears my mind. And on this crucial trip, the distance and change of scenery allowed me to...
View ArticleFrom the Bspot|Blue Canary in the Outlet By the Lightswitch*|Originally...
Sometimes I fancy myself a bit of an architect. With this sketch, done on August 4th, I didn’t get very far. But I guess there’s as much architecture in a birdhouse as there is in a palace. *They Might...
View ArticleFrom the Bspot|Plane Sketches|November 27, 2006, Kuwait Airways Flight 177,...
These were done on board Kuwait Airways in late 2006. I was flying with Amira Behbehani (to my left) and Thuraya Al-Baqsami (on my right). We were en route to Paris for a group show at the Institut Du...
View ArticleFrom the Bspot|Like Glue|Originally Posted August 25, 2009
In our lives we experience people who cling. It’s hard to accept that someone you like/love may cling to you, so imagine having to deal with one you don’t even like. I’m sure everyone who’s never clung...
View ArticleFrom the Bspot|Here, Chicken|Originally Posted August 11, 2009
Have you ever had an invisible friend? Or further still, an invisible life? A life that only you and a few others know about, that many of your most loved ones don’t, or can’t even imagine, exists....
View ArticleFrom the Bspot|Atomic|Originally Posted August 7, 2009
I’ve always been in awe of science. All through school I was constantly made to believe (through my many failures in the subject, both theoretically and practically) that I could never be good at it. I...
View ArticleFrom the Bspot|Half-Frontal|Originally Posted August 31, 2009
I dream a lot that I’m naked and exposed. Of course a dream like that would probably suggest vulnerability, weakness and humiliation. At least that’s what I think. The worst naked dreams are those when...
View ArticleFrom the Bspot|Wax|Originally Posted August 5, 2009
This picture is more about the lady in the corner, discretely depilating herself, than the woman in the foreground. Body hair has always been a tremendous complex for a hirsute Arab like me. The woman...
View ArticleFrom the Bspot|Ramona the Pest|Originally Posted on August 5, 2009
Who remembers Beverly Cleary’s Ramona Quimby? The Ramona books were among my favorite in the third grade. And I loved the illustrations by Alan Tiegreen. His Ramona had skinny legs and a big head with...
View ArticleFrom the Bspot|To the Ball|Originally Posted August 4, 2009
The other day my sister and I were fooling around with a gown and a camera. I took around a hundred pictures of Yasmine frolicking in this dress. This morning I was paging through my sketchbook and...
View ArticleFrom the Bspot|Fashion Fascists|Originally Posted August 11, 2009
You and I see things differently. A chewed apple in my mouth tastes different than a chewed apple in yours. You may love shoulder pads, but to me they are a representation of a decade best left behind....
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