Author Archives: Issam Kourbaj

1/2-room, Old Damascus

Hazem,

If you are going to take your camera for a walk in Old Damascus, I wonder if you would be able to find my…

He is, therefore I am

Hazem,

Sorry, I was wearing another “hat” for the last few day, I was preoccupied by designing the Analemma, and today, I had very productive…

Analemma

As for the Analemma, I am meeting a mathematician on Monday so he could calculate the shape of it, so it could read time!

I’ll…

E or I? The extra-ordenary from the infra-ordenary

Hazem,

A white day outside, everything looks different, the light, the smell and the acoustics of the landscape are fresh. I cycled to my studio…

Local or universal, giving is lost and replaced with consumerism/wast

Hazem,

I like your name for wisdom tooth; I think “tooth of mind” is much better, as one expects to lose one’s mind after loosing…

gathering dust in Kuwait!

privilege or a curse?

Hazem,

The Mill looks derelict, voiceless and livless, I wonder if Barada is still, with his shallow water, flow under the mill’s mud walls? Here…

travelling time, travelling light

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…

Hidden,the two Rivers, Barada and Cam?

Here I am! I tried few times to write but the link to the IAA post didn’t work, and most importantly, I was not functioning!…