About The Work
This work from British artist Susie Hamilton is from a series entitled Marrakesh, which depicts various ambiguous Moroccan figures as shadows and silhouettes of color, contour and contrast. The artist says of the series, “my work in Marrakech focuses on beggars outside the medina, itinerant Sahrawis, sellers sitting on a mat with a very few possessions in the middle of an empty square and (as described in The Sacred Night by Tahar Ben Jelloun) people with nothing to sell who just sit there, waiting. Many of the figures in my work are types of pilgrim, burdened, perplexed and struggling against vast spaces of desert or wilderness. And the figure in Islamic dress, in jellaba, khumur or burqa, is shorthand for this kind of figure, a figure who is rooted in the actual but who also has a spiritual dimension or identity.”
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About Susie Hamilton
Etching on Somerset Satin
14.37 x 15.75 in
36.5 x 40.0 cm
This work is signed and numbered..
About The Work
This work from British artist Susie Hamilton is from a series entitled Marrakesh, which depicts various ambiguous Moroccan figures as shadows and silhouettes of color, contour and contrast. The artist says of the series, “my work in Marrakech focuses on beggars outside the medina, itinerant Sahrawis, sellers sitting on a mat with a very few possessions in the middle of an empty square and (as described in The Sacred Night by Tahar Ben Jelloun) people with nothing to sell who just sit there, waiting. Many of the figures in my work are types of pilgrim, burdened, perplexed and struggling against vast spaces of desert or wilderness. And the figure in Islamic dress, in jellaba, khumur or burqa, is shorthand for this kind of figure, a figure who is rooted in the actual but who also has a spiritual dimension or identity.”
Courtesy of the Artist
About Susie Hamilton
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