T E M P L E P A I N T E R
EXPLORING
the timelessness of it. Almost like a mystical archetype. He was
either there just for tourists with cameras (like me!) or he was really restoring
some of the ancient art.
He was not painting anything new. As far as I remember he didn't have
paint on
his brush but some liquid to protect the paintings. You never know. Egypt is
so that you don't always want to know. Even people are shrouded in mystery.
I like to believe he was part of a restoration crew, because he had a lot of
creed in his manner.
He didn't want money, so I'm sure he was a painter.
A N D T H E A N G E L A P P E A R E D
...acrylics and oil pastels on paper
There is a doorway here if you open to your imagination.
It can be so many things at once.
I feel that there's an angel in here somewhere giving me courage.
H A T S H E P S U T T E M P L E H E A D S
Nostalgia is based on the process of focusing on positive and pleasant aspects
of an event or memory and blocking out the negative, unpleasant ones.
...Have been through hell but God must love me to give me so many hard lessons.
M A S H R A B I Y Y A M Y S T E R Y
Have you ever wondered what hope is all about?
It's a mosque/mausoleum in the Northern Cemetery, City of the Dead, Cairo.
It's good to get rid off as many illusions as possible,
although life gets rather drafty without them.
V E I L E D T H I R S T
...acrylics on paper covered in blue gauze.
Have you ever had the lingering feeling of a kiss, a kiss your lips remembered,
although it never happened, unless in a dream or parallel universe?
I live in a dream and so do my paintings.
O L D P E A S A N T T I L L I N G T H E S O U L
On the way back from the pottery in Belbeis, sitting on the open back of a pick-up
truck crammed with people, freezing.
My foot painfully wedged under a coughing
peasant who laughed raucously in my face. Next to him sat this silent, emotional man.
You can't imagine the elderly in Egypt, they have faces like landscapes,
resembling the Grand Canyon, with strata of history, of feelings, of tragedies,
of - simply - a long and hard life. They also have enormous diginity and
some of them look positively regal in the outfit and turban.
Can you feel the rawness of his moment?
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My work started out mainly in abstract style and then changed over the years to
a more representational style without attempting to be realistic. My most recurring
theme is the gate. I am most attracted to the gates and passages seen in mosques
and other buildings of the Islamic world.
The gate has a deeper meaning for me – it is the place between an outer and an inner space, the gate leads into a world that can only be imagined. Still life on the other
hand enables me to explore and express music visually, music and rhythm and spatial
relationships. I also love to do portrait and painting on glass. The bottles and vases
I paint take on their own life; it happens that I find myself painting them standing
in the desert or even the sea.
Photography is also very important for me. I take photos with the painter's eye and
focus my attention and expression mainly on the play of light and shadow as well as
architectural features or picturesque details that generally escape our attention.
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I hope you enjoyed a glimpse of my work,
~Dorian
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© Dorian Haqmoun, aka. Doriano, 2006 All Rights Reserved
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