Joy Wahba Ishak
(American University in Dubai, April 2015)
My name is Joy
Wahba Ishak, born in Cairo, Egypt on the 12th of November 1995. I’ve
been expressing myself through art since I was a young girl. I really enjoy
sketching in pencil specifically and also painting.
This painting
expresses a woman covering her face with her hand in order for her eyes only to
be seen. Yet the viewer doesn’t know whether this woman is veiled or not,
whether she’s brunette or blonde. This painting illustrates the perspective of
a Muslim woman towards the Muslim women who are veiled. She has a perspective
much different than anyone else that many won’t understand as they are not in
her position. She has her veil, and she has her perspective. People tend to
look from a different perspective and judge. That stereotype of veiled women
being too close-minded and not accepting the ways of the western. Little do
these judgmental people know that the veil is a representation of modesty and
privacy, therefore, its equivalent to anyone keeping their privacy but perhaps
in a different manner. The veil is a very personal element for women in Islam,
and people must understand what it means in order to accept it. The painting
illustrates how the women behind those hands will not be judged if she isn’t
wearing the hijab that’s why I didn’t incorporate it in my painting. Yet people
may hear and understand her perspective since they don’t know the truth about
her being veiled.
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