Aura


Aura, a collage of portraits of an artist friend in layers of colour, by Bonfelle

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A friend of mine is an artist whose imagination never seems to switch off. This piece started as a question: what would it look like if I could paint that? I built it in layers of color, contour, and rhythm. The bold hues are the bursts of inspiration, and the monochrome spaces are the quiet moments in between.

It’s my attempt to draw what creative energy looks like from the inside: a map of how an artist thinks before anything reaches the canvas.

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هالة

لي صديق فنان لا يبدو أن خياله يتوقف أبداً، وقد بدأ هذا العمل بسؤال: كيف سيبدو ذلك لو رسمته؟ بنيته طبقات من اللون والخط والإيقاع؛ الألوان الجريئة هي دفقات الإلهام، والمساحات أحادية اللون هي لحظات الهدوء بينها. إنها محاولتي لرسم الطاقة الإبداعية من الداخل: خريطة لطريقة تفكير الفنان قبل أن يصل أي شيء إلى اللوحة.

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