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Nada Fakhreddine's paintings whisper rather than shout. They invite you to lean closer, to notice the gentle way flowers emerge from a figure's hair, how blossoms drift through family gatherings like wishes made visible. Her canvases speak in the language of quiet revelation, finding poetry in the spaces where memory and imagination meet.
Working from daily life, capturing herself, family, and friends in unguarded moments, Fakhreddine begins each piece with a sketched figure. Her technique mirrors her philosophy of transformation as she builds outward through loose brushstrokes and deliberately unfinished details. Trees merge with clothing patterns, interior spaces flow into exterior gardens, boundaries dissolve to allow viewers to complete the visual story. These intentional gaps become invitations to participate in what she calls "moments of bloom," those spontaneous instances when creativity flourishes and ideas take visible form.
Her figures, always central to each composition, serve as anchors for explorations of space, emotion, and shared experience. Working in acrylic across narrative series, Fakhreddine employs a rich symbolic vocabulary. A simple chair becomes a meditation on presence and absence, movement and stillness. Personal objects scattered throughout scenes serve as memory talismans anchoring past to present. Books suggest stories within stories, while vases hold more than flowers—they contain relationships, each bloom distinct yet bound in unity.
Beyond decoration, her floral elements carry deep meaning that shifts from painting to painting. Sometimes they cascade like dreams made visible, other times they embody the colorful complexity of family bonds. This symbolic language rewards close attention, revealing layers of meaning that transform familiar domestic scenes into something luminous and fantastical, reminding us that extraordinary moments wait within the most ordinary experiences.
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