Reborn Sounds of Childhood Dreams

Description:

How would you depict the sound of chanting voices, a forgotten dream, and a childhood memory you can’t fully recollect? El-Salahi’s Reborn Sounds of Childhood Dreams creates a haunting scene inspired by these experiences as well as Arabic and African forms and iconography. He incorporated simple forms, somber colors, and strong lines to capture the moments when memory and dreams, and the past and present, collide.

Attribution:

Ibrahim El-Salahi

Date:

1961-65

Source:

Facsimile from UC Berkeley Library collection