Iraqi artist Salam Atta Sabri has produced his own One Thousand and One Nights set in Baghdad. In response to the Coronavirus pandemic that has forced us to live from day to day, his drawings present an extended period of uncertainty and prolonged waiting through the character Shahrazad’s experience in the Arabian Nights.
Read More“They’re whimsical in a way, they’re funny and colourful, but at the same time they are kind of sad.” Iranian artist Afsoon has started ‘The Corona Days’, a diary of watercolour drawings that chronicle the experience of the Coronavirus pandemic. Part diary and part art therapy, Afsoon finds her sketchbook “a useful tool to control where my mind was trying to burst out.” As part of the exercise Afsoon pays attention to the feel of each day. She expresses her first emotion on waking in her sketchbook, working on and around it through a cast of characters, quotes, and memories.
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