Mohamed Fadlalla

This body work is essentially a portal for my audience. I don’t necessarily have an intended message to convey, however, I do want to convey a concept, or rather an atmosphere in my work. I want to give off an “otherworldly” or “celestial” sense as most of my work isn’t rooted in reality, and the few realistic elements in my art overall are usually intertwined with something abstract or “unreal”. The overall feeling that I want my audience to feel when viewing my body of work is content, I want there to be a sort of tranquil chaos about my general body of work.

Many individual pieces in my overall body of work have a great amount of fine sharp lines drawn with micron pens. In those pieces there is usually also a great variety in the line weight. Thinness and thickness of the lines. Most of my works are randomly thought of. I generally don’t use a colorful palette when creating my pieces, in fact, my only piece with color in it is one of my earlier ones; which was more of an experiment. The deliberate use of black and white in all my pieces is to display the variety of designs and concepts that can be used to create vastly different pieces of art, and specifically in my case, different scenes; landscapes; and pieces of imagination.

The way I arranged my art is also meant to reflect the manner in which I created these pieces of art. In the beginning of my IB art career, I simply brainstormed ideas that appealed to me and then tried to pull things out of my imagination into paper. That’s been the manner that I go about creating new artworks ever since, and I want the audience to get the same feel of scattered creativity that I have when thinking about my art. I scattered my art around, there is no exact pattern to the way the art works are put, this is to also show the freedom with which they were created, and the sense of freedom that I want them to carry.