Modar Dawara

Traces of what

once stood

Modar Dawara

I believe art should not be boxed, labeled, or confined to rigid methods. My work is guided by emotion, memory, and message not by style or technique. Each piece begins with a feeling, allowing the message to shape the form. This freedom keeps my art alive, evolving, and deeply personal.

From the ground

This project develops from my earlier work "Blurry Memory", where I explored memories as blurred, dissolving, and bodily traces. In this new series, I continue this investigation by working with handmade paper pulp created from recycled paper, cellulose, and natural materials. Paper, originally derived from trees and earth, is transformed back into an organic and sculptural substance. Through kneading, layering, and physical manipulation, I build forms that emerge from the surface as if rising from the ground.

The project is rooted in a sustainable practice, both conceptually and materially. By using recycled paper and natural components, I explore the relationship between body, earth, and material.

Blurry memory

An image is often the stillness of fleeting thoughts and feelings things our eyes capture passively, without conscious awareness. Yet even in this passive state, these impressions stream into our minds, leaving traces that resurface in our dreams or in spontaneous actions. They become part of our subconscious deeply personal, hidden, and unknowable.

In this series, I attempt to share fragments from my own foggy memory moments that chose to manifest as blurred shapes on canvas. Some are melancholic, some joyful, some romantic, and others abstract.

These forms may be familiar to me, and somehow, indirectly familiar to you. They might belong to the past or the present. But they exist within us all.

Women's mood swings

Woman has always been a focus of charming and attractive feelings. Her physical transformations and inner feelings are enchantingly synchronized, and, when portrayed on canvas, they manifest in the form of complex and smooth lines that correspond on the outside with her inner feelings.

Effect

Hair carries a rich and complex history, symbolizing beauty, identity, and humanity. This became the core inspiration for the Effect project. I wanted to explore the potential of this natural material while highlighting the message of sustainability.

In this series, I create a direct link between art and the environment by using human hair an organic material often discarded without thought as an artistic resource.

Chess

Earth's inhabitants are chess pawns manipulated into carrying out what they do not comprehend, desire, or otherwise approve of. It will be game over whenever the hands moving them desire. If half of the pawns resisted, no one would die of torture, during war, or of starvation. The earth is a mountaineous chessboard that consists of 64 squares, each square contains 64 chessboards, and so counting endlessly. Using this sequence they manage control us while we foolishly fantisize that we control our own patch.