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struggle of the palestinian people. many policy and artists have devoted their lives to portray and convey their reality. one of the most prominent painters, islam, and months old. born in 1947 in brazil, palestine a year before the establishment of the state of israel. masood studied fine arts in jerusalem, growing up under occupation. his work 1st gained recognition at the age of 26, with a peace camel of hardship portraying an elderly, bent over porter, struggling to carry jerusalem on his back. and ever since his work depicting the policy and struggle and culture has travelled the world from him alone to london to new york. now at the age of 75, has he lost hope peace will ever come. i'm stephanie decker and my love in the occupied west bank. solomon my food is regarded by many as one of the master

artists of the 1st intifada. the 1st palestinian uprising. and it's here in the studio where brushes will paint and even mud portray mister months, who are the vision of the palestinian people that parked their present and their future, the burden they carry and their ongoing struggle, policy and artist, my, my food talks college i filaments who thank you so much for talking to al jazeera usually starts in the beginning of your career. i want to talk about the present. i want to ask you how you would describe yourself as an artist, how you would describe your body of work so far. to be very difficult and very interesting, you know, the problem in the occupied territories is that it's full of the ideas mean full of contradictions. and that's very interesting. so i

consider my work as part of the for the student people's life because it reflects that life and reflects on so the feelings of the people i hope so. so that's my out. i don't know what would have done if there was no occupation or if i was living in switzerland told example on germany. well as the i see it affected me a lot and effected my out. so this is very much also a personal documentation of your personal journey. it is part of the people and when, when i left a cake, the experiences that afflict my own experience of what is changed over the decades in the sense of the ground has changed. politics has changed, situation is changed,

has that been reflected in your work as an artist? i think sometimes i feel the difference between one time and the other. but the main thing that happened here that the feeling changed in the seventy's is there was a lot of the 40. there was a lot of hope for, for the future. and people were helping each of the left of the free will. but then when the piano again, when the p, p and a started, all these feelings were lost. people change. i mean the attitude to live, their attitude, to their patient attitude, to all everything changed. they were much more, i believe they were much more clean. they were much more sincere in the seventy's

and they said you could find everywhere. volunteer work in municipalities in the universities and to me it's everywhere. and people helping each other, especially in the fist into father, could see that feeling enough. after that the opposite happened. every one along, i mean, fighting for or had on and tell us which is okay, but it's too much. and there is no volunteer work at all the belonging to the so you're talking about hope. the people change in the seventy's. have people lost hope over the decades? have you felt that due to the political situation on the ground and has that been reflected in your work? how? how was that changed? was that all the hope and on the part of the hope that they have then it

in the seventy's and the it is. but until the recent events, you know, when people saw the demonstrations and the whole world and men and among females, living in israel, that there is a lot of hope among the people. and i hope didn't tell i didn't do any work off of that. but i'm sure the next we have will deal with this kind of feeling. you are an artist. what is art for you is? is it a form of release? is it a form of diary? are you trying to give a message? how would you describe what it, what it does for you inside paint? i think all of you have kind of i believe

in us tuition. well, when you don't have the homeland, when you don't have the i mean it can't be a political think. and when people deny your existence on many, many places and noticed they, they deny your existence. so is a form of saying that we are here. we are living here. we have long root and it gives all my think to the homeless. the things you use in your work, i do think that we just have a few of them around us here, but there is a very there is like we think it conveys strong emotion. i think looking at your work, it's difficult not to feel like what kind of message like look for example, this one. there's a lot of embrace in your work. usually online is the men here in

my work. i use the symbol of the woman to reflect some of those things and one of them is that of edition that was in the seventy's now resembles the homeland resembling the land punish time is hugging the policy. now people enter on the more or less like that. i think to, to, to put the feeling of belonging among the latino people, it's very important because without that we are last ever to put a scene or should they have to kind of long to, to go to the policy now people to the homeland, to the policy, the problem may be or not to give all his life but or her life. but

some, some of it you use different methods. let's say during the 1st and the father, he started using more mud the land in terms of creating, there's one painting i saw on your instagram called absent presence and you have 2 fingers. and most of them are describe it to me. it's like a cracked mud and then you just have their feet that is still sort of very powerful . my roof and during the 1st intifada, part of that because the idea of the 5th to divide those 2 point cut, there's only products come from. so i have 12 natural materials, i don't been started working, good luck, my work for the fall and month like 15 years intensively and then i went back to painting in my career like amboy,

sometimes i have ideas and much fill work in mud. but sometimes i mix the 2 together, i do mud and then i continue the work in clinic or oil, and the depends. you know, what does much convey no mud. this is very simple. it means it's symbolic. for the human beings, it's symbolic. for land, it's invalid. for punch time and symbolic for if you're, if you live with mud for that to dry it correct. and it symbolizes also a kind of feeling i have getting all done. and symbolize is also the political condition here that when you, whenever you go here landscape geography is fragmented. so it's has a lot of meanings and very intensive meaning over your career

over your life. over the decade, the land, pat historic palestine has been shrinking. in terms of settlement expansion is that you have one, you have one painting where you see a woman and she's standing with the policy and it's like in the 2nd virus landscape . what inspires you? how, how did, how did these ideas come to you? what are you trying to convey? what happened in the recent years of making peace with some other countries? and so give, not only me about many philistine as it give them a feeling of being alone. so i got that the idea of that painting from the whole atmosphere that everybody is living, but we are still here and we will go on with that with our for that

ma'am idea, i wanted to ask you about that because your art has been embraced in the world you're famous, you same policy and painters. it's easy to buy a painting and put it on your wall. do you feel that the arab world has somehow abandoned the palestinians a little bit at this point in time? i don't believe that worked and i'm sure there's a lot of people everywhere the support us and the was the government here on the 4th by them father or nick year but. but this is not the it's not easy. and it's not easy for the philistine ent see a way of doing that mentally. while it's trying to bring down docs i was while killing people here and occupation and then

they go and be embraced. and that kind of sort of helped us to see that. and it picks up somebody's head. but the unsure the people in general don't feel like there again for me. you mentioned alone when it comes to being a policy and is there a loneliness to being an artist? yeah. of course them up if he were on the studio alone. that's how do you know? so loneliness is part of the production. but to allow us to, as in the loneliness comes in, you know, not only the artist laundromats, but in life in general. i think that's why

many people say that my said depressing sometimes about because it's not easy to live and such as tuition. let me live here. it's a lonely situation, sense tuition. and they reflect that. do you feel you have a responsibility as an artist because of exactly who you are and what you live? you and the rest of the palestinians to reflect what is incredible powerful emotion that you managed to convey through your work is that you feel is that a burden or is that something that enlightened you when you create affect my my up to feel my own creation this charge of power that i put in my, in my work, and i work on attempting like one week very that have been sticking lead on,

trying to do all of the shapes and putting the don't. there is any creativity and that's the last moment. and the last hour when, when, when i sit in touches in on the 5th and last i think this creates the power that is in the painting. and this is the creativity that i put in the painting. i also feel the kind of responsibility as an artist and as a well known artist, i'm among the listing people. i actually live responsibility to reflect the life of the people and to help and getting us free. and they tell you it's not easy. it's not a nice feeling to have this obligation from fan i wanted, i want to think that it will be much easier if i am

a teacher or an architect or whatever, you know. but because sometimes the feeling that you have and the built and that you have to do things immense and failing the concept. looking at your paintings, your most famous painting that you were saying initially got sold, ended up in the hands of one mcguffey, correct the camel of burden. the painting disappeared in 9697. we started documenting for 15 and up and i thought it would be a good idea to document that we have course. and so we context. i contacted the live in person and my men and in london and the promise to come back to me

after one week, something like that. they came back to me and they said there is no printing. it disappeared in a fix. it is. it's because one, bob, bon, bonded, ballasa of conduct him and so we put one on we nearly believe that the towards destroyed during that or one bob meant to some of your work or at least i suppose how it's been lost represents regional, the regional history, the regional politics, there's another piece i was reading about, which is called woman breastfeeding. she's breastfeeding and she's holding a gun that seems have disappeared as well. yes, we're in the rotan, i think 7879. we stopped at something called museum for the ballistic people and they got a lot of donations from many up and the whole world and also from philistine up to

sunday and today to at least 3 or 4 paintings for that museum. and also at that time, we were part of the union, a police officer in bare root. so we used to send them to exhibit them with them, with other testability, not just and then the war of it to happened. occupational by route and the book, but many, many philistine in this situation, including the museum for policy, for, for the policy and then people and also the headquarters of the union policy not, not to so many of the pictures that we have there that destroyed the paintings. that were not destroyed, they were full and the people took took them away. but also some months before the envision of the road,

they organized and exhibiting in iran, of our paintings and the send them. and then when the war happened and the lift by root. and so the paintings are still in iran and you can't get them back. do you know where they are? and the museum, the museum of data. but they wouldn't listen, you know, that kind of been cryptic thing. you know, we didn't get them from me or we got them from other people and they're not there anymore. so we left many paintings in italy. we made several exemptions in italy and most of them are lost. many, many pacino's up the last they work there. also we left many works and a big exemption was bent and in 79

. the problem is that we didn't document many of the paintings that were lost here and there and then and besides the manufacturing courses accepted by the, by the authorities newest bank. i guess these really confiscated your work as well . it confiscated from me like 4 or 5 paintings from other up to like this or more. there was no rule about what kind of painting should become cricket is until 1981 when they give us this or that about not not allowing us to print in black and white. so this kid thing that

have this color in them can you paint without this color? not really is at that time and for a couple of years, most of the paintings will read well and red, green, black and white. the concept we were talking about, your most famous work, the camel of part and the concept of burden the concept of hardship. it's impossible not to look at your paintings, whether it's in real life, whether it's on your instagram feed and not feel the emotion. and the pirate conveys of, from what i see is incredible sadness nostalgia. it's very rare to see real hope and positivity in your work. how difficult has that been for you to live, to live it and obviously it's emotion you you conveys so well to the outside. you know, looking back at my life and the feeling that they have about all this kind

of situation we live in, it's not only had and it's not only depressing and not only have a good. and it's also humiliating, you know, and them, and lot of people and, and, and i know, you know, because right, and they do a lot of studies about policy and embroidery and about a lot of policy and i cancel it. so it's culturally non, we need people and somebody comes from poland and didn't know phone and say there's no policy in people and the take your land terminating. and so the humiliation that is in that unless feel besides all these things and you feel you will have to get rid of that at all.

and as an artist, i treated it as a burden on me to work for that him because it's a very difficult him. so the burden that i feel and the burden that everybody who deals with this kind of freedom problem of the philistine as the burden heavy and failing. when later officer he told us that we are not allowed to print in red in black and white. he tried before that to convince us to pent flowers and nice ladies and so on. i think what i really didn't in the future after we get the art freedom is flow nicely this. do you expect to see that in your lifetime? freedom to tell you the truth,

i think i was born here before efficient for an actor and i didn't know all the time. i believe until now that i was wondering before we get treated. thank you so much for talking county. ah no place. and so i go on with say, press brit treated of the car about a media hub and vital vantage point during the 1st truly televised war from the roof. we could see the recreation at the american embassy, where the most iconic images of the conflict in vietnam were transmitted to the world. this was the front row seat to the final stages of the war saigon caravel,

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