FACES 

MY ENEMY .. MY FRIEND

 

“Abdel Wahab” a friend and an enemy of my childhood .. He is the imaginary being who accompanied me when I went out into the porch of the house during cold winter nights. He would talk to me struggling to befriend me and I just want him to leave me alone, I was simply afraid of him, afraid because he was not normal to witness, he was not like anyone, That big head and those small feet and those scary caring yet horrendous eyes. He would always break my loneliness and force me to finish my chores as swiftly as one could simply to escape from him “Abd al-Wahhab away with you” I would beg.

I grew up and my ordeals with Abdel-Wahab went away, a friend of my childhood imagination, and yet with time he was revived in my paintings. he did not forget me as I forgot him. He remained in a corner of my imagination waiting for that right moment to come out with full force, the canvas of my white paintings became a stage for him, his rightful place to appear.

Thank you Abdel Wahab .. all that time you were trying to tell me something, now I can confidently say I understand.