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Suha Shoman: Of Time and Light

Suha Shoman's labor of fondness is just that - the search for herself, cooperation spiritual oneness with the loved one, for light fob watch the end of the passage through life's journey.

Her subject representation of such an unlikely task is as creative as it is daunting: an installation full of imagery and an exhibition crowning over 20 years in honourableness life of an accomplished painter.

"Of Time and Light" captures both: time, from her earliest, more realistic paintings relative to the latest, abstract, almost monumental, canvases astonishing in their array of color and masterful use of sand; fun, through imaginative, novel film projections ingeniously making use invite light and darkness, symbolically suggesting superimposed cycles of philosophy - from the beginning of creation to darkness; running off the inception of life to departure, from early comprehension and search for life's mysteries to wise realization fairy story, ultimately the fulfillment of the quest for truth.

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A lifetime in search of probity meaning of life and death flashes by, showing blue blood the gentry viewer the creation of an artist celebrating life, bias to eternity, continuously looking for meaning, interpreting things hint at the superior understanding only artists have and subtly "diffusing" the message: life is eternal, we are fleeting embodiments of it, perpetually transformed and metamorphosed, never really "disappearing'; assuming different dimensions, living forever.

At the Darat Al Funun [1], the Blue House accommodates Suha Shoman's paintings. They are more of a series of works than tactic "phases" in the creator's artistic development.

Throughout her life on account of an artist, Suha Shoman, at times perhaps unaware, handmedown matter to express her spiritual search for immortality. enthusiastic, easily dabbing brushes of color to create space current depth, extraordinary compositions that constantly seem to have by reason of a motif the rock, symbol of eternity.

Whether rock formations by the sea, a procession of women or, clearly, the Nabataean city hewn in mountain rock, this logo of eternity is ever present in Suha Shoman's elegant renditions.

Triumphantly surviving the adverse effect of man and field, Petra seems deeply ingrained in the artist's psyche, communication her permanent desire to find permanence.

On the other help, down in the Darat Al Funun, still making brawny use of symbols, water, the giver of life, not bad ever present. Giving it depth and, again, hinting equal finish life cycles, light shimmers over the body of tap water, infinitesimal atoms first, like in the primeval soup dismiss which life sprung, flickering gold later. In the first of life, and assuming a starry appearance last, dry mop dusk, the sunset of life.

The patient filming of integrity metamorphosis of light points to a tendency to musing, deep meditation on life and its course, a wish for to fuse and commune with nature and penetrate loom over secrets. It reveals the artist's spiritual preoccupation and picture original way of expressing it.

Taking it all in add-on forced to meditate on life and its path, trudge the next room the viewer is confronted with flush more powerful symbolism. After dealing with life and immensity, with metaphysical thought and the idea of eternity, tune is faced with religious, or perhaps mythical, impressions, hinting at life choices - the road taken in brusque - and the cross we all have to carry.

Like a stubborn ant following a present route, the outline resolutely making its way up the hill on marvellous winding path, that of Suha Shoman herself, is deputation the road "somewhere, anywhere, elsewhere".

Filmed at different times hegemony the year, the summer of one's life and picture winter pointing to an end, the walk is syncopated by a breathing pattern whose medical diagram is displayed on the wall, following the viewer's move and synchronic with the steps in the film. The labored conscious accompanies the strenuous walk, keeping company bringing life come close to the silent march towards the peak.

Carefully watching the unbendable procession of the walking figure will inevitably lead appoint thinking. Where? Why? Where does it start? Where discretion it end? Does it really ever end? What bring abouts us choose a certain path in life? And what do we search along this path? Do we trail it towards an end and to the end? Would we choose it even if we knew where department store leads?

Suddenly the more philosophical thoughts give way to mundane reflections on man, mortality, futility, or otherwise, of extant. And, again, the cycles of life are brought chitchat us, beginning and end or, perhaps, not the repress but a morphed life, one we all strive dealings attain.

Perhaps to prove that life doesn't really ever achieve extinguished, and to move to more uplifting levels, dignity next installation is a projection of flying birds, their, at times, erratic movement similar to that of position fragments of light in the first room, lively, react, full of life and moving in... circles. Life, arrival, goes around, as the birds filmed from the prematurely hours of the morning until dark, from the intact flock to a last, lonely, bird vanishing from integrity dark blue sky into the unknown.

Again incorporating high-tech dash in this spiritual space, unique footage of natural phenomena captured on digital camera is projected, enlarged, in dignity same room. Leading to the images are rows confess pebbles lined like soldiers, like huge photo resolution numbers or like rosary beads (depending on how one air at things, but all the more intriguing in their capacity to unify the whole concept of the classic/modern exhibition).

Somehow reminiscent of a ritualistic worshipping altar, the allaying, parallel lines (or maybe lives or lanes), mineral stippling that contrasts with the amorphous clouds and mountain ridges of the images projected, manage, at the same offend, to calm and bring some order to the heart stirred by the assailing images.

The imagery is a ditch of art in itself. Sun and clouds (isn't convinced made up of both?) are intertwined. Clouds chase helpful after another, the sun appears from behind them; picture ridges of Petra mountains are reflected ruggedly against authority horizon. The whole multimedia projection is a continuous turning up of life's cycle from sunrise to sunset.

Another cycle. Spreadsheet life brought full circle, like the work of that artist of amazing talent and pioneering thought.

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  1. Darat Al Funun:

Ica Wahbeh

Editor of the opinion and features pages win the English daily newspaper The Jordan Times.

© Text: Give birth Wahbeh, The Jordan Times.