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In the coming weeks I'm gonna revise the whole concept of Mohazine - Loads of experimenting is needed! There are gonna be major changes to product, presentation and style in order to make it more visible, accessible, flexible and professional. Your feedback has encouraged me a lot recently. A million thanks for that! ❤️
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The next stage? 😉
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[Finally some focus. One of the better ones - I think...I'm not so convinced recently..] Inspired by Miriam Makebas "Ifriqya" in which she sings about the pan-african struggle for freedom and even sings a small part in Arabic as a tribute to the Algerian struggle for independence. I don't understand the beginning, but the rest goes: "[...] The age of slavery is over. In Algeria I am free". [And, oh, by the way, I named it "Jihad". Yes, I did 😘] Text in Arabic: وطني المفدى ثائر ... انتهى عصر العبيد انا حرة في الجزائر ... وطني الام السعيد The song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ht1DWMl3Uso
Hayat / حياة
"Hayat" - life in Arabic and Turkish - is about the respect for and dignity of the subtitles of life in all its manifestations. It's beauty and diversity, its fragility and strength, its imperfection and symmetry..
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First orders ship today! Anyone still in need of a Eid/Bayram present? Die ersten Pakete gehen heute raus. Vielleicht brauch noch jemand ein Eid/Bayram Geschenk? 😉🌙
Silence / صمت
"Ma ajmal an tasmat fi wajhi man yantadir minka l5isam" or "What is more beautiful than to remain silent when one expects you to be enraged". The image is intentionally ambiguous: its content claiming silence, while its contours show a roaring lion. It is a reminder to all of us about resilience and dignity in the face of oppression. About empowerment through patience and restraint in all of our struggles. It reminds me in similar sense of Marianne Moores poem "Silence": "...Self-reliant like the cat [...] they sometimes enjoy solitude, and can be robbed of speech by speech which has delighted them. The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint."
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Ma ajmal an tasmat fi wajhi man yantadir minka l5isam / What is more beautiful than to remain silent when one expects you to be enraged.
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Experiment 🌙 (still in progress)
Nisa' / نساء
I have to admit I'm not sure about this one. It is an attempt at visually deconstructing "nisa'" the arabic word for "woman", thus making a statement about the artificial, violent social construction of gender and its underlying fluidity.
Politics / سياسة
Queering politics so they don't only accommodate privilege. Let's turn politics upside down. Start from the bottom, from the margins, from the other side - the side of the oppressed, the outcasts, the weird, the poor, the ill, the Other.
Nations & Tribes / شعوبا وقبائل
We have "made you into peoples and tribes so you may know one another" - One of the most beautiful verses from the Qur'an. One of the most universal ones. An Ayat which hints at the differences between local cultures and traditions, their wealth and our duty as human beings to respect, know and learn from each other.
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"Which of the favours of your Lord will you deny" - a verse from one of the most beautiful chapters of the Qur'an. An incredible interplay of poetry and content. The chapter's entitled "The Merciful". It is introduced by an enumeration of the beauty of the universe and it's equilibrium. Everything depending on and - linked in responsibility and destiny - to everything else. The drawing is an attempt at expressing this balance in midst complexity and chaos. I've used moroccan berber symbolism to enrich the quranic verse in order to show that Islamic tradition too depends on balance - the balance between Islam's universal claim and the respect and admiration for local memories. Product-Link: http://www.mohazine.com/store/p9/Rahman_%2F_رحمان.html
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