Embers of Narratives, سرديات الجمر
2023-Ongoing
„Exploring the Cycle of Destruction and Transience through Thermographic Art“
Experimenting with different Termo tools.
Hameed discovered that he could create shapes (images through flames) that looked like traces of fireassociated with places that had experienced war and destruction, places that he often visited as a child. Such as images from his hometown of Mosul. He gets these pictures from Google Street-View images. Through this process of investigation and by creating an abstraction, the function and narrative of the images are being changed. Hameed sees it as a cycle.
Destruction is only one point in the cycle, it has to do with temporality and transience, which are hidden within it.
by useing screenshots from Google images of places he cannot visit.
He prints them with a thermal printer and adds fire elements by hand, making many areas of the image invisible and creating a black abstract surface.
