Lot Essay
'The painting has been loaded with a lot of symbolic elements to relate [to] where I come from. So that's why I say there are no boundaries, or specific lines between the memory and the moment in which I live. That's why I like the idea of the experience of the artist's vision.'
(A. Alsoudani, quoted in S. Rowlett, 'On Painting, the Melting Pot, and Making Soup: An Interview with Iraqi artist Ahmed Alsoudani', https://hyperallergic.com/61032/painting-the-melting-pot-and-making-soup -an-interview-with-iraqi-artist-ahmed-alsoudani ([accessed 21st May 2013]).
(A. Alsoudani, quoted in S. Rowlett, 'On Painting, the Melting Pot, and Making Soup: An Interview with Iraqi artist Ahmed Alsoudani', https://hyperallergic.com/61032/painting-the-melting-pot-and-making-soup -an-interview-with-iraqi-artist-ahmed-alsoudani ([accessed 21st May 2013]).