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Peacock the Sentinel
Peacock the Sentinel. The peacock symbolism represents beauty, grace, renewal, and spiritual awakening. The peacock is native to India, Asia, and Central Africa, where various tales give it deep significance. Peacocks symbolize beauty, as they have vivid feathers pleasing to the eye. The rich colors…
Akhenaten
Akhenaten, living centuries before King David, he wrote psalms as beautiful as those of the Judean [Judaea] monarch. Thirteen hundred years before Christ he preached and lived a gospel of perfect live, brotherhood, and truth. Two thousand years before Mohammed he taught ….
Arabesque Exhibition
Arabesque Exhibition. The arabesque is characterised by intricate scrolls of bifurcating stylised leaves that embellished many objects that were produced within the Islamic world. It is one of the main Islamic decorative repertoire,…
Street Abstract
This street abstract is a portrayal of ‘guess work’ because it represents little, if anything, visible or recognisable in the real-world context; as its beauty depends on and comes through one’s vivid imagination, therefore, to reveal itself as a primary gift.
Lady Cook
Lady Cook. As I explored the environs of El Wak Stadium, Accra, Ghana, site of the Dec 2023 AfroFuture music festival, this lady, taking a break from food preparation, caught my attention. Revealed is a face that reflects the inner beauty of the one on which it rests.
Quiet Morning
Quiet Morning. Apartment Building. Penang, Malaysia (7am, 20 Jan 2024). Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by, A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth, like a garment, wear – The beauty of the morning … ⎯Wordsworth
Kahlil Gibran Lebanese Poet
The infamous Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese, poet states that “Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms”.
Kezia Agyemanboafo Accra Ghana
My portrait of Kezia Agyemanboafo, a local lady, was captured by as I explored the grounds within El Wak Stadium during the AfroFuture Music Festival, held on its last night in Accra, Ghana, 30 Dec 2023. Faced with poor and often fluctuating lighting…
Leaf Imprint on Asphalt
Leaf imprint on asphalt captured at the Polo Grounds, George Town, Pulau, Penang on 20 Dec 2023. Asphalt is a petroleum-like material that exists in both a viscous and a more solid state. This means that it can be heated, spread, smoothed, and hardened—characteristics…
AfroFuture Ghana
AfroFuture was an event that opened up a wide field of possibilities. I captured candid shots, not prearranged, of people, objects, and occurrences as they happened. I strive to document an event where a single photograph presents the viewer with in-depth understanding what occurred.
Omanye House
The well-respected Ghanaian artist Ablade Glover has established this famous art scene,”⎯Omanye House⎯” which has become one of the most important art venues in Ghana. Three expansive art floors were exhibited in the cool marble gallery, exhibited by famous artists such as Owusu…
Orientalist Paintings
The Orientalist Paintings collection of the Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia is among the world’s largest. As a pioneer institution of the Islamic world, the museum seeks to reclaim a heritage that reveals much about the Islamic past. An Orientalist painting is more than a work…