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| 2013. Qalandia Checkpoint/Apartheid Wall, Palestine. Iktemal Jaber. |
Fugitives of the land--
A birthing seed frees the oppressed heart, making plants the ultimate healing medicine to the human mind. A flower is proof of our existence—of water, of air, of sunshine and of land. Like a refugee, it sails upon whirlwinds and returns back to its native sands. Beautifully resilient it stands and caresses the land, knocking through the stones and the walls holding its roots down. Land filled with milk and honey, exiled and deserted like quick sand. A starling orchestra of flowers interrupts the dopey autocrat, with the pulse of the olive seed prevailing, rebirthing, and breaking through. The children of the land, speckled like seeds swimming through the rivers, they are created whole, endowed with innate intelligence, with dignity and wonder, worthy of respect. Children are original blessings, here to learn their own songs of purpose like flowers reaching beyond walls. They are entitled to love, to dream and belong to a loving village as their home. Where the land holds on to their smiles like a prisoner holds on to freedom. As a confused lover searching every petal for an answer, seeds become our prayer beads. We emerge and transform from their absence, only to dance under the Canaanite moon with the tulips, and the pheasant’s eyes of Palestine.
Praying and awaiting for the right of return.
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| 2013 Palestopia Iktemal Jaber |
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| 2013 Palestopia, (Installation View), Iktemal Jaber |
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