I believe all art is a meditation on humanity's place in the larger picture. Art expands our understanding of everything around us and directs our thoughts in new directions.
I love light. Especially the warm, glowing kind that makes things seem sacred and significant, and I am often drawn to symbolism in art. My paintings and drawings remind me of intimate staged scenes where light emphasizes meaningful elements within the composition. Two common elements in my work are striped vines and globes. The vines represent human perception, and it's ephemeral nature. Everything we experience is filtered through our personal history and the attitudes around us. Light and dark are inseparably linked, but the division shifts, or even disappears, depending on our perspective. The globe also deals with perception, but in a much more focused way. It represents the higher ideals that allow us to hope, dream, and strive. Chief among them being compassion and empathy. Without those, it is difficult to relate to one another, or come together for common cause.
The malleable utility of these forms is wonderful. They allow me to weave a consistent narrative into my pieces, and visually allow me to create a sense of organic flow and connection. What is at once a vine could also be a stem, the human vascular system, or the aerial roots of an orchid. The globe lends itself to drops of liquid, an eye, or an egg only just beginning to develop into new life. What they are exactly is subject to interpretation. But to me, the continuity of simple forms repeated throughout all of know existence is reassuring.
I think an artist's primary function is to relate their experiences within the context of the time and place they live in. My work is a meditation on my personal experiences, and things that move me. I create work that is meant to be aesthetically pleasing while bearing traces of darker subject matter. Because life is that way. Both beautiful, unsettling, and on occasion contradictory.
Angel Hawari is originally from Louisiana near the historic and culturally eclectic city of New Orleans. She now lives and works in Minnesota with her husband and their son.
The malleable utility of these forms is wonderful. They allow me to weave a consistent narrative into my pieces, and visually allow me to create a sense of organic flow and connection. What is at once a vine could also be a stem, the human vascular system, or the aerial roots of an orchid. The globe lends itself to drops of liquid, an eye, or an egg only just beginning to develop into new life. What they are exactly is subject to interpretation. But to me, the continuity of simple forms repeated throughout all of know existence is reassuring.
I think an artist's primary function is to relate their experiences within the context of the time and place they live in. My work is a meditation on my personal experiences, and things that move me. I create work that is meant to be aesthetically pleasing while bearing traces of darker subject matter. Because life is that way. Both beautiful, unsettling, and on occasion contradictory.
Angel Hawari is originally from Louisiana near the historic and culturally eclectic city of New Orleans. She now lives and works in Minnesota with her husband and their son.
