Fluid Paintings 1996 – 1998
The painting Kuwait oil Effect uses as it base the famous Gulf – War photograph of a cormorant dying in the see polluted by oil leaking from the bombarded oil wells. The oil creates rainbow – like patches on the surface. not unlike the ornaments on Persian carpets. Their ornamental design make you think of heawenly paradise, the destination of the dead ( according to the Islamic tradition ). The rainbow is a biblical symbol of atonement.