Unfolding

Having written recently about the fact that I believe a time will come when we will be able to communicate with each other without the use of words, I have decided that this blog will unfold mainly in images.

I am hoping that even if you decide not to read the captions under each image you will get a feel of the current exhibit of my iPhoneography artworks on canvas and wood, which can be seen in the Radisson Royal Hotel in Dubai from 9-16 September 2015.

 Preparations completed, the opening reception begins.

 Maja Bencic, who helped me prepare the show, joins me to welcome our guests.

The show had been advertised all over the hotel - in elevators

  and foyers,

 and at times, was even to be seen in the lobby. 

 I love photographing architecture so it was exciting to be exhibiting in a hotel that rises 51 storeys above the streets and has a metal and glass exterior. 

 My artworks are shown in the amazing Origami Room area - one of the reasons I chose the title “Unfolding”.

  Soon my photographer Helen David-Cuny arrives as do the other guests.

 Bahareh Amidi, dear friend and poetess, recites the poem “The Arrival of Space and Beauty and Light” about which she had also written a beautiful blog.

Guests mingle

and admire the pieces.

 A traditional igersdubai photo is taken!

  Soon a special guest, Farrukh Naeem arrives and surprises me by telling me that he is about to Periscope the event!  My last blog post had been about this new app so I was overjoyed.

 The periscope video may be found here to allow you to be part of the opening reception.

  The opening of "Unfolding" coincided with the Arab Women in Leadership and Business Summit

and while it was on the curtains to the foyer were closed. I believe that as moments occur, we have the choice to creatively partake in their unfolding - an apt message for the forum I felt, and another reason I entitled the exhibition “Unfolding”. 

  On the evening after the summit was over I made my way into the Origami Room and allowed the quiet, almost meditative space to surround me.

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Further images can be seen on my facebook page and more of my art can be viewed on my art website

If you'd like to see the above story unfold before you, here it is via Steller 

Here is the Periscope that Farrukh made of the event: