String: Zaid Shawwa

“Music is a higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy “
                             L. Van Beethoven
There is something about Music and how it touches us, how it relates to time and place, to feelings of love and acceptance... 
It’s part of our memories and nostalgic world, the voice of our mothers, the rhymes of our childhood, the new horizons of adolescence, the memory of our first love and the first cry and laugh of our children. 

In my continuous obsession about Music, I continue relating it to the human soul and its surroundings. I see people as instruments, and travel beyond place and time with each piece I listen to. 
I find relief and refuge in the vibrations of a string, I smell nature in the wood, I seek and find the origin of life in the shape of a Cello, a motherly warmth in the sound of a Viola, a shy speech of love in the whisper of a Flute and a grand presence in the sound of the Piano.... I see the streets of our old towns and its people in the singing of the Oud.  

In this collection I try to capture this unique relationship between man and string. I portray moments of our lives being lived as a musical composition, where love, family, lust, laughter and even silence are the melody that plays, and color and figures are the instruments on the stage of life....