BOATS AND BURDENS
In clay I bond with cathartic earth, to heal and be healed, craving serenity and order in restiveness and chaos. My art is an attempt to capture stolen dreams, innocence, pain and beauty lost, with imagination, with love. Nothing is more powerful than beauty in a wounded world.
Ainaki Ghabeta Nakheel 'Your Eyes are two Palm Forests' Boats and Burdens Earthstone, glaze and gold 42x32x7cm 2008
Embrace: Al-Razzaq 'The Ever Providing' Earthstone and velvet 55x18cm 2008 
Golden Boat Earthstone, glaze and gold 27x35cm 2008
Al-Mussawir 'The Fashioner of Forms' Asma Allah al-Husna Earthstone 69x21x9cm 2008
Atfal Baghdad Yes'eloun ‘The Children of Baghdad are Asking’ Earthstone and gold 9x45(d)cm 2008
Salamun Aleika ‘Peace be on You’ (Opening verse from Salamun Aleika by Iraqi poet Saad al-Ghrairi) Earthstone, glaze and gold 9x40(d)cm 2008
Al-Fattah ‘The Opener’ Asma Allah al-Husna Earthstone, oxides and gold 5x27(d)cm 2007
Salamun Aleika ‘Peace be on You’ (Opening verse from Salamun Aleika by Iraqi poet Saad al-Ghrairi) Earthstone, glaze and gold 9x40(d)cm 2008
Al-Fattah ‘The Opener’ Asma Allah al-Husna Earthstone, oxides and gold 5x27(d)cm 2007