Description
This painting ‘“ Rose from Jebel Al Akhdar” is painted on 10*12 inches or 25.4*30.48 cm. My inspiration for this painting comes from my visit to Jebel Al Akhdar last december with my family, where i happened to visit this rose farm mainly cultivated for making rose water and rose oils. It is seasonal though only cultivated here in the entire Oman. When I visited most of the rose plants had almost dried out except for a few that were in shade . I had collected a number of references from these plants. Not all looked healthy as they were all in the drying out phase. Some had withered their petals , some leaves dried and bent.
When my eyes fell on this particular flower standing out in an afternoon light trying out to be strong and untethered. It had still not lost its color , maybe in a few hours or minutes it would have been.
What amazed me in this flower was the joy it gave in its phasing out, that beauty and strength it stood up tall and upright knowing it would die in hours . Slightly tilted at peduncle. This is what I try to capture in my painting. That phasing out of a flower from bud to blossoming to shedding away . The shape and form of this flower represents that.
It reminds me that this life is just a small bubble between the first breath and last breath . In this bubble, if we just start seeing everything as “life” without giving any labels, names or assumptions just identifying it as beautiful life, I think most of the problems we see today may disappear. This rose in a while reminds me that I too will phase out and need to humble down and just enjoy life as it comes , after all “life” is what that matters the most.
