ZAHIYAH ALRADDADI

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Morphogensis 

Ink and Charcoal on papers
Commisioned by The Saudi art Council 2021

We gravitate toward a center, be it the gravity of earth, the orbiting of the solar system, or a center of our own making. A core that harmonizes our existence and keeps it aligned. From micro to macro we live in orbits, loops, and cycles, some infinite and some submissive to a beginning and an end. In a sense, we are part of the whole and a “system of wholes.” Made out of recurring connections, rhythms, and modularities.

Morphogenesis is an attempt to mystically map the unmappable, trace our perception of reality and the possibilities of what it could be other than what it seems. The connections between our own experience and the collective experience.







“Beneath the current of our existence and within it, there is another current flowing in the opposite direction. In this life, we go from yesterday to tomorrow, but there we go from tomorrow to yesterday. The web of life is being woven and unraveled at the same time. And from time to time we get breaths and vapors and even mysterious murmurs from that other world, from that interior of our own world. The inner heart of history is a counter-history; it is a process which inverts the course of history. The subterranean river flows from the sea and back to its source.” Miguel de Unamuno, Niebla.