EBTISAM ABDULAZIZ
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    • 2022 >
      • Autobiography 2022
      • 2022 Artist in Residency program at Montgomery College
    • 2021 >
      • 'I can't breathe' 2021
      • collaboration with Life Water 2021
      • Collaboration with Swatch 2021
    • 2020 Isolation Art
    • 2019 >
      • Untitled 2019
      • Focal Illusion 2019
      • Life in a bag 2019
    • 2018 >
      • See Something Say Something 2018
      • Gold 2018
      • 2y+2m+5d=38m
    • 2017 >
      • Islamophobia 2017
      • A safe person to approach 2017
      • Subscription 2017
      • Re-Building 2017
    • 2016 >
      • Autobiography 2015-2016, Diary
      • Untitled 2016 (1)
      • Autobiography-USA 2014-16
      • Untitled 2016 (2)
      • Untitled 2016 (3)
    • 2015 >
      • Structures 2015
      • Unashamed 2015
      • Remapping DC 2015
    • 2014
    • 2013 >
      • Re-Mapping the Wall 2013
      • Re-Mapping House 11, 2013
      • Re-Mapping the Office 2013
      • Night Shadows 2013
      • Remapping AlFahidi 2013
      • Remapping Africa 2013
      • Blue Freedom 2013
      • My Phone’s Diary 2013
    • 2012 >
      • Autobiography 2012, Diary
      • Autobiography 2012- Plate Numbers
      • Autobiography 2012-Found Objects
    • 2011 >
      • Women’s Circles 2011
      • Self Portrait 2011
    • 2010 >
      • Untitled 2010
      • Re-Mapping The Arab World 2010-2013
    • 2009 >
      • Life in a Bag 09
      • Biography 09
      • Word in to Art 09
    • 2008 >
      • Untitled 08
    • 2007 >
      • Imaginary shapes 07
      • Light of the Shadow 07
      • Autobiography 07
    • 2006 >
      • Life's cube 06
      • 35 Minutes 06
      • My Brain 06
    • 2005 >
      • Portrait 05
      • Four Probabilities 05
      • Vision & Illusion 05
      • Autobiography 03-05
    • 2004 >
      • Number & Lifetime 04-05
      • Ten Triangles 04
      • Line 04
    • Paintings 1999- 2018
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​Light of the Shadow 07

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Light of Shadow 07, (installation), Engraved Plexiglas with LED Light, in dark room, 40 x 60 cm each.
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​We all know that a work of art, whether it be a painting or a photograph, depends on the tonal harmony between light and shadow. They, like colors, give objects vitality and radiance, and enable the artist to express properties such as volume and depth. It is also known that there are gradations of light and dark shadows. Objects that are closer to a light source appear smaller, and those further away from it appear larger. This work rebels against all these preconceived ideas and beliefs. Here, Shadow turns to light, and gradations disappear. In the end, this shadow turns to light- really brilliant light was once merely a shadow. The work has an abstract quality, as the areas where the shadows of light fall paint symbolic pictures that give them the opposite meaning.
  The work was initially intended to be a massive project to be executed outdoors in different areas of the city. A marker was to be used to outline shadows, as a start, and then those areas were to be filled with glow-in-the-dark colors. Thus, the shadows of the day would turn into lights at night. Such a work would stick in the memories of the viewers long after it has been removed. These types of works take a lot of time to complete and would also require special permission from the appropriate authorities. Therefore I thought I would transfer my idea into a photograph displayed in a dark room with the shadows painted on with florescent colors so that they turn to light in the dark room.
  “Light of Shadow” is a project whose subject and instrument are the walls, people and objects, using two basic tools: colors and a marker. This is the easy way of drawing things. It is simple, unpretentious and everyday behavior to represent human interactions with nature. We probably engaged in a similar activity as kids, and it is very similar to painting on walls. The 'intricate' part of the work, and its goal in my eyes, is the reintroduction of a technique, and the redefinition of things in a new light and with different qualities. Using florescent colors, the definition of shadow is transformed into light, and the effect is obtained by displaying the work in a dark room. The work might come out differently but with the same idea and artistic vision that matches this principal of intricacy. Perhaps it would be more accurate if I said that, conceptually, this idea came about as I contemplated the backgrounds of open spaces, wide wall and narrow streets. The contemplations also included people, trees, plants, earth and their shadows.
  Each work has tools and artistic elements determined by the nature of the work itself. My tools here are a brush and colors, tools that have been used since the dawn of time. However, my canvas is different. I have used the surfaces of earth, walls, objects and even humans. This work is intimately related to nature, and it has been decided that it would be moved from the exhibition hall and displayed outdoors with the objects of its native environment. People see shadows but never notice them, and this noticing and utilization of what people ignore or discard is what distinguishes environmental artists. Through this work I attempt to express the innate power of nature and the power that an artist bestows to it through adding and altering things to and from it.
©  2022 EBTISAM ABDULAZIZ
  • About
    • BIO
    • CV
  • Work
    • 2022 >
      • Autobiography 2022
      • 2022 Artist in Residency program at Montgomery College
    • 2021 >
      • 'I can't breathe' 2021
      • collaboration with Life Water 2021
      • Collaboration with Swatch 2021
    • 2020 Isolation Art
    • 2019 >
      • Untitled 2019
      • Focal Illusion 2019
      • Life in a bag 2019
    • 2018 >
      • See Something Say Something 2018
      • Gold 2018
      • 2y+2m+5d=38m
    • 2017 >
      • Islamophobia 2017
      • A safe person to approach 2017
      • Subscription 2017
      • Re-Building 2017
    • 2016 >
      • Autobiography 2015-2016, Diary
      • Untitled 2016 (1)
      • Autobiography-USA 2014-16
      • Untitled 2016 (2)
      • Untitled 2016 (3)
    • 2015 >
      • Structures 2015
      • Unashamed 2015
      • Remapping DC 2015
    • 2014
    • 2013 >
      • Re-Mapping the Wall 2013
      • Re-Mapping House 11, 2013
      • Re-Mapping the Office 2013
      • Night Shadows 2013
      • Remapping AlFahidi 2013
      • Remapping Africa 2013
      • Blue Freedom 2013
      • My Phone’s Diary 2013
    • 2012 >
      • Autobiography 2012, Diary
      • Autobiography 2012- Plate Numbers
      • Autobiography 2012-Found Objects
    • 2011 >
      • Women’s Circles 2011
      • Self Portrait 2011
    • 2010 >
      • Untitled 2010
      • Re-Mapping The Arab World 2010-2013
    • 2009 >
      • Life in a Bag 09
      • Biography 09
      • Word in to Art 09
    • 2008 >
      • Untitled 08
    • 2007 >
      • Imaginary shapes 07
      • Light of the Shadow 07
      • Autobiography 07
    • 2006 >
      • Life's cube 06
      • 35 Minutes 06
      • My Brain 06
    • 2005 >
      • Portrait 05
      • Four Probabilities 05
      • Vision & Illusion 05
      • Autobiography 03-05
    • 2004 >
      • Number & Lifetime 04-05
      • Ten Triangles 04
      • Line 04
    • Paintings 1999- 2018
    • Collage
  • Video
  • Press
  • News
  • Contact