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Artist Statement for Shakir Muwwakkil
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Art is more than an ornament, adorning walls and positioned upon pedestals, it’s living. Living through the artist or the subject, and shared in the lives of its viewers. Art has intrinsic values, which shares truth with those in its presence. My objective as an artist is to create bodies of work which express ideas, concepts, and intimate thoughts. I choose to visually communicate to my viewers topics from social to global matters, to humanistic issues. I was selected by the photographic medium, as the tool in which to express and communicate. The camera has a unique voice and characteristics, which can transform an array of ideas, transcending ethnic, cultural, and language barriers. And it’s the only tool or device which can grasp and instant, and hold it captive forever.
My current bodies of work are different; however, they share ideas of creating social change. First, “Abstract Figurative Series”, this body of work is to confront the vast negative perceptions of the human form. In a society where people often use the cliché, “we are made in the image and likeness of God”, its not often understood. When one is confronted with such an image, this “magnificent creation”, it’s deemed socially awful and disgusting; even in a non-sexual context. A true hypocrisy to the often spoken cliché. This series, challenges this accepted societal view by presenting images of the human figure in abstract imagery. This allows for one’s curiosity to take them beyond social conditioning, into a rim deep within, where their truth lies. And that place is where the viewer can appreciate without foreign input and prejudice. And the connection is often made, where the viewer begins to see themselves and others in the piece, without the disgust appointed by others.
The second, “The Human Spirit”, this series is a documentation of the human spirit from around the world. This series is an attempt to break down perceptions and misnomers of others, and rethread the quilt of human compassion, love and understanding. I travel to various lands, cultures, and societies to interact with people, whose life experience are different from as we know it, in hopes of capturing images that can influence change in the lives of it’s viewers; foreign or domestic.
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