"Harmony through the Virgin Mary"
(click to enlarge)
3000 LE (US$ 550)

"Harmony"
 (click to enlarge)
3000 LE (US$ 550)

Additional entry - not shown at exhibition
(for website sale)

Most of my paintings could be characterized as “Naive Art” or “Urban Naive Art,” but I often chose the technique of collage too, especially if the subject is more demanding and serious. The technique of collage is a work of formal art, primarily in the visual arts, made from assembling different forms, thus creating a new whole.

In this collage I used newspaper clippings, pieces of other artworks and photographs glued on paper. This artwork can produce dramatic effects and is a distinctive part of modern art.

In the center of the collage the viewer can see the figure of "Harmony” personifying the love that brings together all people and faiths, the personification of order and civic unity, flying over a mostly devastated world (in which anyone could be hurt, anyone could get killed and anything could be destroyed). This “Harmony” figure is carrying the message that unity is essential to a world in which people would live together in peace and with equal opportunities, in order to enjoy the things in life which really matter, such as love, family, freedom and harmony….spreading the idea, according to Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, "that the followers of God should not be led into ways of violence.”