May Hariri Aboutaam

Morphing nature and architecture, this series of wood panels is entitled “Emotional Ruptures” captures and frames images that unfold an intimate narrative of mother earth and her beings. An ephemeral blur of mixed media materialized in an abstracted representational form depicts a transformed urban landscape. In an attempt to re-imagine our natural environment intractable problems, these images become emotional ruptures that preserve

traces of histories and momentums of actions and reactions

between human and nature. Containing elements of earth, wires, and layers of different textures, these visual forms have certain properties potentially violent; they embrace metaphorically

the ambiguity of life and nature and question our ethical responsibility to restore the balance of our ecological system. Such a scheme becomes an overlapping of aesthetics

and ethics. It investigates reminisce of “wholeness” and what remains of our collective efforts in hope of finding wholeness, after all what is at stake is our cohesive wholeness.

This visual experience builds a mapping of nature behaviors that parallels human behaviors with underlined hope to detect a better understanding of each other’s actions and reactions to bring a positive change to self and other. The images are representational, digitally altered, printed, mounted, painted and layered with mixed materials to convey the intended message.