Each individual image of the Recent Artwork series, looks to grasp a
moment in time in a place in the world that we have or have not yet been to.
A moment we wish not only to keep, but also to include into our lives. Our contemporary and contradictory way of life claims for intercalated serene moments; those that I love depicting... those everyday moments: snapshots of mankind inadvertently involved in natural processes; flashes of nature that will bring us positive changes.
Having spent over a decade living in the Caribbean, the lights and contrasting colors of the tropics, its vegetation and fauna, fill the entire format as if it were all reaching out to everyone that is there to see and interpret the essence that is imprinted on my work. My heritage, my travels and my fascination with the divergent cultures in the world are major influences to me. I value the natural environment in women’s lives: women in close relationship with the world.
I utilize the millenary Javanese Batik technique, a dye-resisting process that
I personalized by working with beeswax, dyes, colored pencils, watercolors and acrylics on cotton paper. I keep a mental register of color tone and luminosity, where transparent colors interplay with each other to produce a surprising effect, once the wax is removed. I believe the whole charm of Batik is about the unpredictability of the final result, as it is often surprising, even to me. Improvising around the unexpected is essential.
The goal of my work is to represent
a new reality, one which not only hints
at where we have been, but which
also invites us to seek out a new direction. Because, after all, there
is always a ray of hope – somewhere.
Doris
Naffah
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