Al Jazeera Net correspondents
Occupied Jerusalem- Jerusalemite Sondos Al-Rajabi chose the art of ceramic painting to serve her city and its cause. Through her own project “Ceramic Art Studio”.
Sondos tells Al Jazeera Net that she is currently collecting leaves from fruitful plants that were planted by her ancestors in villages displaced during the 1948 Nakba, and printing their leaves on clay, in an attempt to revive the stories of those villages by producing different designs and shapes with those leaves.
She explains that she chose plants that the refugees themselves planted before they migrated, and they still bear fruits today, and with this type of art, she transfers the plant from the clay of the earth to the clay.
Regarding her choice of this type of art, Sondos says that it almost imitates fig and grape trees, and she senses in it the anxiety of waiting for their owners who have been absent from them for a long time.
She adds that the artistic pieces “give details to the plant that we cannot see with the naked eye, with a dazzling imprint.”
The Jerusalemite artist points out that art pieces, in addition to being a memory that tells the stories of the place, have personal uses. Such as: cups, plates, gifts that we buy, etc.
Sondos began her project in 2020, and in addition to producing artistic pieces of ceramics and plant printing, she is interested in producing designs specific to the city of Jerusalem.
