Oriental lights: Ceramics Etchings Glass
Paintings
The artist Khairat Al-saleh is a ceramist,
glassmaker, printmaker and painter, whose art while reflecting her oriental Arab
origins is also a celebration and fusion of West and East, past and present,
history and geography. This web site showcases some of
her original etchings (prints), glass castings, paintings and ceramics.
Contents
Work
Information
Artist: Painter Printmaker
Potter Glassmaker Poet writer
Contact Information
E-mail address
mailto:contact@khairatalsaleh.com
Please
note that some of the artist's works are on display at Ayagallery
In
Biographical Information
A short biography and a list of exhibitions are provided (see navigation
bar above).
This website displays
some handmade ceramics (bowls and plates), handcrafted etchings and other works
of art. If you are interested in buying a work of art , please use our email
address to contact us.
Please use the
navigation bar above to move to the rest of the pages.
In this section we shall publish some poems
WHERE DID We DANCE?
Where did we dance the dance of dances?
Where did I dance
wrapped in a cloud of star dust,
The sun on my right,
the moon on my left,
Mercury imparting
visions of forms perfected,
Mars yielding the toned clamour of the clash of swords,
Jupiter communing
omniscience, Saturn omnipotence?
Where did I dance measuredly revolving with the revolving spheres,
My eyes two galaxies,
my hair threading the Milky Way
With Venus a crown and
the Pleiades a circlet adorning the brow?
Where did I dance seeking the sphere of spheres
Within without, all embracing, all-encompassing,
The fountainhead, the
matrix, the essence of all music?
And yet I danced, I danced with my right hand caressing the stars
My left hand touching
to the earth, feeling the powerful tree trunks,
Harvesting the myriad hews of flowers?
Tell me in what lost
garden did I fall into step
With the majestic foot-falls of the cosmic dancers
Treading lightly,
vibrantly upon the floors of the universe,
Unseen, yet ten thousand times seen, unheard, yet eternally heard,
Unfelt, yet
penetrating the marrow, reddening the blood, stringing the sinews
Where did I dance, my beloved rising to meet me
Astride monumental
shafts of cascading light,
Amidst the whirlpools of the cosmic wilds
And waste upon waste
of star-studded universal meadows,
With meteorites and asteroids sliding off his hands
As his fingers plucked
his strings, then paused to pluck them again.
Where did we dance, in what forgotten age
In which lost kingdom, in which hidden
The music died, the moment the light went out
Irrevocably lost because irretrievable
Yet only retrieved
beyond this time this life this our city of the world.
ANEMONIES
I know that in the spring of the year
I shall rise in the sap
I know that in the small reds of the anemones
I shall sink into the rising sun.
Please
see also verbal Contributions on the navigation bar.
Forthcoming Exhibitions
In this section we shall announce forthcoming exhibitions of the
artist’s work.
Links
http://rainbowdervish.blogspot.com/
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Khairat+Al-Saleh&btnG=Google+Search
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=Khairat+Al-Saleh&fr=yfp-t-501&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8
Last
revised: January 2007 Web
site designed by Khairat Al-Saleh
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presented in this site are made by Khairat
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written authorization is prohibited.
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