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If you Google Somalia, we don’t have beautiful pictures there, but ugly ones, so I’d like to change all that using my paintings.” It reflects the current political clash between the federal government and opposition, she said, as national elections are delayed.Īnother painting reflects abuses against vulnerable young women “which they cannot even express.” A third shows a woman in the bare-shouldered dress popular in Somalia decades ago before a stricter interpretation of Islam took hold and scholars urged women to wear the hijab.īut Sana also strives for beauty in her work, aware that “we have passed through 30 years of destruction, and the people only see bad things, having in their mind blood and destruction and explosions. Her work at times explores the social issues roiling Somalia, including a painting of a soldier looking at the ruins of the country’s first parliament building. Princess and Junior Andre have unfollowed Carl Woods on Instagram The car. “Everything that’s made is first drawn, and what we’re making is not the dress but something that changes your internal emotions,” Sana said. Exchange Student: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Author flashkill455 Posted on. All Reviews: Mixed (204) - 65 of the 204 user reviews for this game are positive. At exhibitions, she tries to make people understand that art is useful and “a weapon that can be used for many things.”Ī teacher once challenged her skills by asking questions and requiring answers in the form of a drawing, she said. Inspired by the DisneyPixar animated film, Cars 2: The Video Game lets players jump into the Cars 2 universe with some of their favorite Cars personalities in exotic locations around the globe. Many people in Somalia don’t understand the arts, Sana said, and some even criticize them as disgusting. A male student began shouting “This is wrong!” and professors tried to calm him, explaining that art is an important part of the world. “I fear for myself sometimes,” she said, and recalled a confrontation during a recent exhibition at the City University of Mogadishu. More formal instruction followed, and she eventually assembled a book from her sketches of household items like a shoe or a jug of water.īut as her work brought her more public attention over the years, some tensions followed. “I would use charcoal on all the walls of the house, drawing my vision of the world,” Sana said, laughing. Sana, a civil engineering student, began drawing at the age of 8, following in the footsteps of her maternal uncle, Abdikarim Osman Addow, a well-known artist.
She is just one of two female artists he knows of in Somalia, with the other in the breakaway region of Somaliland.Īnd yet Sana is unique “because her artworks capture contemporary life in a positive way and seek to build reconciliation,” he said, calling her a national hero. Sana stands out for breaking the gender barrier to enter a male-dominated profession, according to Abdi Mohamed Shu’ayb, a professor of arts at Somali National University.
“I love my work and believe that I can contribute to the rebuilding and pacifying of my country,” she said.
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