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Picasso, the blue period. how come -- it feels like its all abstraction. >> it does sometimes get very photographic. so if you watch, you will see moments where it literally looks like a photographic landscape or an architectural drawing or a face may emerge. youll notice different modes and rafik i think has carefully choreographed and composed them. but these different modes are special because with generative a.i., its working very, very hard in concert with the machine learning model to crea...

Most probably are not serious. again, the vast majority. but this is kind of a numbers game here. its a big country. so small percentage of them are. we know that to be true. again, this is not an abstraction. no longer trump keeps exciting x inciting an agitating, its a roll of the days each time. the greater the odds are that that small group of people who could do something will do something. it only has to be a few. dont trumps utilizing that reality to increase the cost of prosecuting him, ...

Heres the beak. yeah, and the flower. yeah. but, of course, its also just an abstract geometric motif. and there is this tension, if you like, isnt there, in islamic art, when it comes to representing living things? yeah, i think this abstraction comes out of it. you can say its a bird but you cannot be sure of it. and such a good example of repetition, right? yeah. thats the key to it, isnt it? its also a sort of wonderful expression somehow of society because you have all of these individual u...

Yeah, and the flower. yeah. but, of course, its also just an abstract geometric motif. and there is this tension, if you like, isnt there, in islamic art, when it comes to representing living things? yeah, i think this abstraction comes out of it. you can say its a bird but you cannot be sure of it. and such a good example of repetition, right? yeah. thats the key to it, isnt it? its also a sort of wonderful expression somehow of society because you have all of these individual units and they se...

Engaging with some orientalist paintings in a reallyjoyful way. youre like, "these are great paintings!" yeah, because as an artist, i believe my eye. then, i found myself in the world of orientalist or the patterns or the tiles or the carpets as a piece of an artwork, as already so important as it is. genuinely, youre sort of like, theres a respect for that tradition which you feel deeply. i do. i respect arts — thats why, maybe, yeah. i love the playfulness of ardan�*s work. theres a real ...

Paintings in a reallyjoyful way. youre like, "these are great paintings!" yeah, because as an artist, i believe my eye. then, i found myself in the world of orientalist or the patterns or the tiles or the carpets as a piece of an artwork, as already so important as it is. genuinely, youre sort of like, theres a respect for that tradition which you feel deeply. i do. i respect arts — thats why, maybe, yeah. i love the playfulness of ardan�*s work. theres a real coming together of worlds here,...

At historical western art will find all of these quite familiar, but in a very broad, generic fashion. yes. different centuries have different motifs and different colours and they all have an idea, they all want to say something. this looks like a hummingbird. i think so. heres the beak. yeah, and the flower. yeah. but, of course, its also just an abstract geometric motif. and there is this tension, if you like, isnt there, in islamic art, when it comes to representing living things? yeah, i th...

Together of worlds here, of different layers — her fascination with the repetition and abstraction of islamic art, the way she embraces and evolves that vexed orientalist world view by looking at it through the warholian lens of a pop art sensibility. all that, for me, really encapsulates what ive been discovering — the complexity of the exchange between east and west. before i came here, orientalism — in my mind, at least — was almost this dirty word that was synonymous somehow with wes...

Motifs and different colours and they all have an idea, they all want to say something. this looks like a hummingbird. i think so. heres the beak. yeah, and the flower. yeah. but, of course, its also just an abstract geometric motif. and there is this tension, if you like, isnt there, in islamic art, when it comes to representing living things? yeah, i think this abstraction comes out of it. you can say its a bird but you cannot be sure of it. and such a good example of repetition, right? yeah. ...

Showing me all of that. shall i tell you what i find quite surprising? orientalism — it feels like something that today people are so critical of but youre engaging with some orientalist paintings in a reallyjoyful way. youre like, "these are great paintings!" yeah, because as an artist, i believe my eye. then, i found myself in the world of orientalist or the patterns or the tiles or the carpets as a piece of an artwork, as already so important as it is. genuinely, youre sort of like, theres ...