ART Habens
Camille Danielle Wortman
languages with ease and opened my mind to people different from me. And yes, I have seen women covered from head to toe in their white veil, but I have also witnessed their freedom when President Bourguiba came to power and this is the reason why I feel so much anger in front of the regression in the attitude towards women. Well, I have tried to answer this first question to the best of my ability. As you know, English is not my mother tongue and I am sure that my style is far from good, so I beg you to take that into consideration. Thank you.
I Paint most of my free time. I have set up my dining room – lounge-kitchen in a certain manner that enables me to paint as much as I want and to have everything I need to do so at hand and ready to be used! My husband has set a large board against the wall, thirty centimeters away from the large dining room table, and underneath that board, the floor is lined with thick brown paper where all my material is set. I live with my work. I usually have no clue of what the outcome is going to be when I start: I scribble with one colour or another, another colour calling another and so on. I am just playing! It can take a few hours, and then when I give it a rest and can look at the result from the other side of the table, I sometimes see something that is emerging out this chaos, and often it is linked to a verse, mine or someone else, and then I know that I have a direction and I start the battle seriously. Time flies, I am glued to the canvas, apparently unable to see all of it, and yet, after a few hours, when I move back, it does make sense and I am left wondering what in the hell happened, what moved my brushes and who chose the colours! I work and I work laying layers of paint, after layers of paint before anything is dry, and honestly I don’ t know how It gets done. I use my hands, my brushes, the tubes of paint, and I always remember what my mum used to say to me whenever I was helping her in the kitchen:” balbaza”, an arabic word that meant” mess maker”! Yes, I am a mess maker! I wish I knew the formula for making a good painting, but I don’ t and I grope in the dark untill I see the light! No, I
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