The Tenderness Journals / Fibreart Journals
دفاتر الدفء / مجموعة أعمال نسيجية
Pieces are available for purchase, you can find them at The Workshop in Jumerah, Dubai, UAE or email if interested and for details and prices. See below for video flip-throughs of some pieces.
The Tenderness Journals
Because the language of touch is much louder than that of words, Fadwa Al Qasem's The Tenderness Journals are works of interactive fine art that, unlike most art pieces, demand to be touched.
The Tenderness Journals were born of the artist's love for journals and journeys - both words derived from the French word "jour" meaning day - a diary, a daily practice, a distance that can be traveled within a single day. All echoing the artist's belief that we can achieve a great deal, one thing at time and many things over time. Incremental changes add up. The Tenderness Journals were also born from her love for stories and humanity's urge for mark-making since the dawn of time.
Each piece is handmade by the artist. The yarns are knitted, crocheted, looped, manipulated and curved, as if echoing secret and forgotten scripts. The absence of words is at times more powerful than their presence. These are silent journals which you can read by touch, like Braille, but not quite, because they will say different things to different people. And the colors will also draw you into their realm.
Because the language of touch is much louder than that of words, Fadwa Al Qasem's The Tenderness Journals are works of interactive fine art that, unlike most art pieces, demand to be touched.
The Tenderness Journals were born of the artist's love for journals and journeys - both words derived from the French word "jour" meaning day - a diary, a daily practice, a distance that can be traveled within a single day. All echoing the artist's belief that we can achieve a great deal, one thing at time and many things over time. Incremental changes add up. The Tenderness Journals were also born from her love for stories and humanity's urge for mark-making since the dawn of time.
Each piece is handmade by the artist. The yarns are knitted, crocheted, looped, manipulated and curved, as if echoing secret and forgotten scripts. The absence of words is at times more powerful than their presence. These are silent journals which you can read by touch, like Braille, but not quite, because they will say different things to different people. And the colors will also draw you into their realm.
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