Kerri Shying - Nameer Qassim
Nameer Qassim
Nameer Qassim, Mothers Day, Best wishes 2023, Acrylic
Brightly coloured houses of green, pink, red, purple, brown and yellow stand against a deep blue night sky filled with stars. A woman with tatreez on her clothes reaches her arm across the city.
Nameer Qassim was born in Jerusalem/Palestine in 1984. She holds a BA in Fine Arts from Al-Quds University in 2007. She held her first solo exhibition entitled "Spontaneous Character" at Yabous Cultural Center in Jerusalem 2012. She held her second solo exhibition entitled "Dance", visual works inspired by the Palestinian Folklore Ensemble at Mahmoud Darwish Museum in cooperation with the Palestinian Folklore Troupe and the Folk Art Center in Ramallah 2017. She participated in the facility exhibition organized by the Abdul Mohsin Al Qattan Foundation / Ramallah in 2019. She held her third solo exhibition entitled "Ishtibah" at Katara Cultural District in Doha / State of Qatar 2020.
Palestine Museum, https://www.palestinemuseum.us/events/2022/nameer-qassim
Permission for re-publication provided by Firas Sarhan at Contemporary Palestinian Art. Please follow at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/501644264602687/
Kerri Shying chose to foreground this painting by Nameer Qassim
Kerri Shying
Iron Shield
i have to let this go put down
my burden if i want free hands
to help the wounded help
myself get off the cloverleaf interchange
blame and counterclaim abstain no brain
no god rains bombs on half a land
of children
this is vengeance never gains were made
on corpses suffer the little children
see the men pin decorations
on each others chests focus the spotlight
on themselves
the shoah flits like an imp shines
magnesium lamps in blinded eyes
catastrophe landscapes ecumenical life
the dried out husk to words that string like beads
on the internet abacus of
he said he said they did they did
suffer the little
children time to die
Kerri Shying is a poet/community worker of mixed Wiradjuri/Chinese/Australian heritage who has published 3 full-length collections and a chapbook. She is a respected disability advocate and convenes the online mutual aid writing group for Writers with Disability "WU"
