The High Priest(ess)

This is a paper collage on illustriously painted background mimicking space. The figure is a man dressed as a female spirit, channeling ancestors in a traditional ritual across the oceans from where she hails. She is conjuring, protecting, creating.
This celestial image is made by hand from recycled magazines, mounted on a wooden painting board and ready to hang. It combines imagery with geometrical abstraction.

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I am a multi media artist born in Haifa, in Occupied Palestine. I paint, draw, and make abstract paper collages from hand-cut magazines. I like abstracts: geometric patterns, colour transitions and chaotic arrangements. This extends to my love for painting 'backgrounds', which have become nebula paintings. I like sparkles, kitsch, pretty scenes and figures but especially when accompanied by jarring detail. This is self reflexive romantic projection. When collaging, I love the way I can never run out of material to cut up, with lots of luscious detail and random words. This kind of cut-and-paste is always giving me new ideas. The other side of the piece of paper is often just perfect. My gallery reflects a fixation with maximalism, patterns , and colour transitions, whether in acrylic or in paper mosaic, or both.