Hazem,
Thank you for your thought of the day, Abu Hajar is an inspiration and is a “stone bird”! His images are powerful and his loneliness is poetic. I like what you said about you using him to tell a story of society and the way it acts to “mutilate” - some times under a the “love” cover. This reminded me of Federico Fillini’s Prova d’orchestra and the way he uses the orchestra as a mirror of the Italian Society in the 70s (have you seen it?).
I spent the whole evening yesterday to try to send you some moving images to do with “Light as a canvas” but never managed to upload it ( it is too big!) so I was very disapointed and went to sleep thinking of ways to explore this. I think the best is to look at my site www.issamkourbaj.co.uk and look for Last light first light under projects.
While I was in my studio this morning, I received your posts, and thinking about your questions “what difference between Cam and Barada in your eyes?” and “how can Barada still alive?” I decided to go to the river with my Camera to take some images so to introduce you to Cam, but the minute I stepped out of my studio, I noticed a glass left on the steps of my studio filled with last night rain and alone. So I decided to spend sometime with it; here is the way I spend the day conversing with it, and thinking about the light, as an “old” light; it was travelling -from the sun- for 8 minutes or so before it reaches us.
Any way I had great time this morning and had a meeting with my geologist friend , who said something about Cambridge I felt that very much connected to my morning thought: ” today’s hill are valleys of the Past” and he told me an impressive story about the way the river Cam was changing it’s course (in geological terms -from about 400 000 years ago to the present time). So again the today’s river has travelled, as today’s light, for long time to find its shape! hope you find some answers, in my images, for the way I deal with light.
I have so much in my plans for tomorrow, but if I have sometime I’ll take some images of the Cam, and I would very much like to see the Bab Al Salam Mill, if you could.
Your ” Here and there” reminded me of a piece I’ve done in 2000 called Farewell as part of my Juxtaposition project with aerial photography (see the following image), Farewell is a box and inside it the white piano keys, and when you open the black keys are separated from the white ones! and the river images (infrared) were exhibited on the floor.
I am not sure about the diference beween Barada and Cam, but I like the meaphore of the river, and it is never twice the same!
Issam
