Artist Statement
My work is a continuous act of discovery, an ongoing transformation of memory, personal heritage, emotion, and material into form. For over four decades, I have worked across painting, printmaking, sculpture, and spatial constructions, seeking to dissolve the boundary between perception and experience.
Nature remains a foundational reference within my practice. Its rhythms, colors, and silences inform my understanding of form — from organic geometries to the modulation of light and the temporality of material. The visual and cultural memory of Baghdad is central to my work, shaping its spatial and symbolic language.
Heritage, in my work, operates as dialogue rather than nostalgia. Calligraphic line, Mesopotamian symbolism, and the structural logic of Islamic ornamentation are reinterpreted as elements within a broader cultural continuum. These elements mediate between continuity and transformation, and between the visible and the invisible.
The work engages history critically, positioning art as a space that extends beyond historical narrative. Fragments of collective memory are reconfigured into future-oriented visual structures. Each work operates as both a site of memory and a proposition for new ways of perceiving and constructing space.