https://www.yasminsharabi.com/lamu daily 0.75 2020-07-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1be6020f145b047d9d2445/1595967825954-6JOF8Y0DGSZPXF5HMMM3/image-asset.jpeg Lamu - Miriam at the Factory (2020) A young woman lying on an antique Swahili daybed, on the rooftop of a building that once functioned as coconut oil factory in Lamu, Kenya. Graphite on Paper, 42.5 x 59 cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1be6020f145b047d9d2445/1595967825954-6JOF8Y0DGSZPXF5HMMM3/image-asset.jpeg Lamu - Miriam at the Factory (2020) A young woman lying on an antique Swahili daybed, on the rooftop of a building that once functioned as coconut oil factory in Lamu, Kenya. Graphite on Paper, 42.5 x 59 cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1be6020f145b047d9d2445/1595672067726-LUK8ILDUD82YJPM66V7J/image-asset.jpeg Lamu - Miriam at the Factory (2020) A young woman rests on an antique Swahili daybed, on the rooftop of a building that once functioned as coconut oil factory in Lamu, Kenya. Graphite on Acid Free Paper, 42.5 x 59.4 cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1be6020f145b047d9d2445/1595673352060-XRMB799SYF3YM1F3O3LT/image-asset.jpeg Lamu - Pole, Pole (Slowly, Slowly), 2017 Pole, Pole (Slowly, Slowly) (2017) recalls the Swahili expression that is often exclaimed as a reminder to someone that might be acting with excessive urgency. ‘Slowing down’, allows one to live in the moment and to appreciate their surroundings. In Lamu, Kenya, the oldest still inhabited town in East Africa, vehicles are banned. The locals traverse the tiny alleyways by foot, or, as is the case in this image, on the back of one of the thousands of donkeys that roam freely throughout the old town. Graphite on Acid Free Paper, 59.4 x 42.5 cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1be6020f145b047d9d2445/1595968368376-HCOJZJMXXZGHF3HXC7N2/image-asset.jpeg Lamu - Utakula Kwa Macho (Eat it with your Eyes) (2016) 'Utakula Kwa Macho' (2016) depicts a quarry in Lamu, Kenya where men continue the laborious undertaking of loading their dhows with stone blocks for building. One of the boats portrayed here has a message inscribed on its wooden beam, that translates to; ‘eat it with your eyes’. Interestingly, the ‘eye’ functions as a metaphor in many cultures to connect ‘seeing’ with ‘awareness’. Graphite on Acid Free Paper, 59.4 x 42.5 cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1be6020f145b047d9d2445/1595666142501-LPTMREVIZDUTD3VW2SLB/image-asset.jpeg Lamu - Utakula Kwa Macho (Eat it with your Eyes), 2016 An image of a quarry in Lamu, Kenya where men continue the laborious act of loading their dhows with stones for building. One of the boats portrayed in this drawing has a message inscribed on its wooden beam, that translates to; ‘eat it with your eyes’. Interestingly, the ‘eye’ functions as a metaphor in many cultures to connect ‘seeing’ with ‘awareness;. https://www.yasminsharabi.com/palestine daily 1.0 2024-09-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1be6020f145b047d9d2445/1711546884100-OUI1O0IUYJRXE5SYO6UO/image-asset.jpeg Palestine - Stlll Breathing, 2024 Graphte on acid free paper 59 x 42 cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1be6020f145b047d9d2445/1711546884100-OUI1O0IUYJRXE5SYO6UO/image-asset.jpeg Palestine - Stlll Breathing, 2024 Graphte on acid free paper 59 x 42 cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1be6020f145b047d9d2445/1595667650976-IP7D19GEIHSOJLNUXYGB/image-asset.jpeg Palestine - All the Kingdoms (2020) According to the Bible, Mount Quarantania is the location where Jesus was ‘tempted by the devil’. (The name derives from the Latin word quarantena, which means 40, as in the number of days that Jesus fasted). From Matthew 4:8: ‘Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor’. “All this I will give you”, he said, “if you will bow down and worship me ”. When she arrived at a point high up on the mountain, Yasmin saw a Muslim man praying towards the Monastery that was built over centuries within the rocks. Now owned by the Orthodox church, a monk was sitting on the building's balcony, overlooking Jericho. Graphite on Acid Free Paper, 59 x 42.5 cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1be6020f145b047d9d2445/1596382588325-W7285P7URPHW6ZACB0BQ/image-asset.jpeg Palestine - All the Kingdoms, 2020 According to the Bible, Mount Quarantania is the location where Jesus was ‘tempted by the devil’. (The name derives from the Latin word quarantena, which means 40, as in the number of days that Jesus fasted). From Matthew 4:8: ‘Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor’. “All this I will give you”, he said, “if you will bow down and worship me ”. When she arrived at a point high up on the mountain, Yasmin saw a Muslim man praying towards the Monastery that was built over centuries within the rocks. Now owned by the Orthodox church, a monk was sitting on the building's balcony, overlooking Jericho. Graphite on Acid Free Paper, 59.4 x 42.5 cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1be6020f145b047d9d2445/1599919938086-BMBND1KFM8FEWOEMO7F8/image-asset.jpeg Palestine - The Light, 2020 Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem, West Bank, Palestine Charcoal and graphite on Strathmore smooth, acid free paper https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1be6020f145b047d9d2445/1711547284199-BHSDLHIHYAURNMC2SU8H/image-asset.jpeg Palestine - Should not shepherds take care of their flock? Ramallah, Palestine, 2023 Graphite on Strathmore Smooth Paper, 30 x 42 cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1be6020f145b047d9d2445/1725815691318-4N13C211CIHJDCW6PQ6B/image-asset.jpeg Palestine - Still Breathing, 2024 Charcoal on fine grain paper, 59.4 x 42 cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1be6020f145b047d9d2445/1725815837832-U09BXABZ98NHVEISUA5I/image-asset.jpeg Palestine - Still Breathing Charcoal on fine grain paper, 59.4 x 42 cm https://www.yasminsharabi.com/south-dakota daily 0.75 2023-06-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1be6020f145b047d9d2445/1686513146481-56J8RCF0FCF49ZAL00F8/image-asset.jpeg South Dakota - And we fade into foreground, 2023 Graphite on canson paper, 65 x 101 cm Drawn from an old photograph of my great grandmother with her sisters in 1905, in Hayti, South Dakota. Lily Opdahl is the second from the left in the photo and was probably around 13 years old when this photo was taken. As I was drawing it, I thought about inheritance, the inheritance of traits, traumas and behaviours that are passed down from one generation to the next. This made me think of sisterhood, motherhood, womanhood and the way in which as women, we are often guarded, reserved, restrained, cautious, even as we live in this modern world. Are these things we have learned or traits that we were born with. How have our ancestors behaviours, affected and influenced our DNA? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1be6020f145b047d9d2445/1686513146481-56J8RCF0FCF49ZAL00F8/image-asset.jpeg South Dakota - And we fade into foreground, 2023 Graphite on canson paper, 65 x 101 cm Drawn from an old photograph of my great grandmother with her sisters in 1905, in Hayti, South Dakota. Lily Opdahl is the second from the left in the photo and was probably around 13 years old when this photo was taken. As I was drawing it, I thought about inheritance, the inheritance of traits, traumas and behaviours that are passed down from one generation to the next. This made me think of sisterhood, motherhood, womanhood and the way in which as women, we are often guarded, reserved, restrained, cautious, even as we live in this modern world. Are these things we have learned or traits that we were born with. How have our ancestors behaviours, affected and influenced our DNA? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1be6020f145b047d9d2445/1629929770822-0DDX916LKPWRDX8SNU5N/image-asset.jpeg South Dakota - After Grace, 2021 Graphite on Canson Paper, 56 x 76 cm Drawn from a photograph of my mother’s from 1960s South Dakota, USA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1be6020f145b047d9d2445/1595667394100-HJ2KXJQEZNUJRKWV1XBK/image-asset.jpeg South Dakota - 1927 (2011) Shot in 1927, Orlin Trumm, Yasmin’s great-grandfather, poses for a photograph beside his car, parked near the family farmhouse in Erwin, South Dakota. Pencil on Paper, 48 x 68 cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1be6020f145b047d9d2445/1595966153680-5FARYHWQ2UD0XQCL0UH1/image-asset.jpeg South Dakota - Elsewhere (2020) 1943, Hayti, South Dakota A home in the middle of winter, in 1943, most likely in Hayti, South Dakota. Both the subject and the photographer are unknown. Charcoal and Graphite on Acid Free Paper 35 x 61 cm https://www.yasminsharabi.com/new-gallery daily 0.75 2022-07-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1be6020f145b047d9d2445/1595673169379-TWNO88IMWSBJ8NUWSTRZ/image-asset.jpeg Other - Echo (2012) Pencil and Graphite on Paper, 110 x 79 cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1be6020f145b047d9d2445/1595673169379-TWNO88IMWSBJ8NUWSTRZ/image-asset.jpeg Other - Echo (2012) Pencil and Graphite on Paper, 110 x 79 cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1be6020f145b047d9d2445/1658169963477-9E4MICGYAN8CFZGLUPPR/Paradise+Lost.jpg Other - Paradise Lost, 2022, 35 x 42 cm, Collage on paper Paradise Lost was shown in ‘Collaborations I with Oliver Mark’, where Mark invited various artists to take a photo of his and recreate it in whatever way they liked. Yasmin chose a photo of the oil fields in Bahrain and collaged the image into a shape of a compass. https://www.yasminsharabi.com/contact daily 0.75 2020-07-25 https://www.yasminsharabi.com/about daily 0.75 2022-07-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1be6020f145b047d9d2445/1595672286968-YM3O7MZ81QCMZ3GIV18P/Yasmin+pic+bw.jpg About the Artist https://www.yasminsharabi.com/about-the-work daily 0.75 2023-06-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1be6020f145b047d9d2445/1595968704464-OLR5VVKGB94BFYJPI4LJ/Elsewhere%2C+graphite+and+charcoal+on+acid+free+paper.JPG About the Work https://www.yasminsharabi.com/press daily 0.75 2021-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1be6020f145b047d9d2445/1613461027580-TY8ARGV50ULE280QXQT7/PHOTO-2021-02-12-15-32-30.jpg Press Al Bilad, January 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1be6020f145b047d9d2445/1613462050365-544RATXUBML9ZR29L5LS/Screen+Shot+2021-02-16+at+10.48.04+AM.png Press Artist of the Month! https://www.yasminsharabi.com/bahrain daily 0.75 2022-10-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1be6020f145b047d9d2445/3f666c19-51bb-49da-9f62-695e9c850143/photo-output.JPG Bahrain - Manama Souq circa 1930, 2022 Manama Souq circa 1930, 2022 Graphite on Strathmore paper 50 x 39.5 cm