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Cairo, Ramsis Square, 30X40cm
acrylic on canvas
A typical view of a crowded street with rooftops. This painting
on canvas comes from a series of sketches taken in and around
Ramses Square, opposite the main train station in Cairo. |
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New Jerusalem, Cairo, 40X35cm
acrylic on canvas
Above is a small painting on the theme of a New Jerusalem
- or a city where all religions coexist in peace and mutual
prosperity. This is not an accurate perception of Cairo or
anyplace, although there are a few streets here where one
can see a mosque opposite a jewish temple and a christian
church and thats all good. There is little evidence of the
buddhist or hindu faith in this city but they are represented
in the picture below. Rather than the religious implications
of the piece, it is the geometry of the reversible rhombus
that reminds one of this crowded and manic metropolis. |
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Cairo, view from the autostrade, 40X35cm, acrylic on canvas
Above is a view from the autostrade on the western side of
Cairo. This superhighway wraps much like a beltway behind
the Citadel and the Mohammed Ali Mosque on the left of the
picture plane. Just above the grey mass of the highway spans
the City of the Dead, the cemeteries that make up much of
the lower income housing districts on the outskirts of the
city. Above these, and past the citadel, you can see traces
of the skyscrapers by the River Nile. |
