Artwork description:

Optimism

London. Summertime. The great british weather. 
It rained everyday that summer. 
That day I had enough and felt like, you know what? I will go and sit in my garden with my bikini on, under the rain and pretend its summer. If only I had a yellow balloon handy to pretend it is the sun.
That day sparked this whole series on Optimism and enthousiasm. It became a pretext to speak about eternal optimism, not giving in to circumstances but finding a way out, with a smile.
It is a candid, childlike, spontaneous endeavour, an urban fairytale where my weapon was a smile and a balloon. For the next couple of years, I carried yellow balloons with me, and when the setting felt right, or the scenario came to me, I would take the picture, from Paternoster in South Africa to Marrakech in Morocco, to Brentwood Los Angeles in the USA, to Forest hill, South London in England.

This one was made on One tree Hill in South London

This print is available in 3 sizes.
12 x 18 ins
18x24 ins
24x36 ins

All prints come with a small border, printed on archival Hahnemühle Fine Art pearl paper and come with a certificate of authenticity and its matching Hologram.
They are sent flat to avoir any creasing or damage that may occur when larger images are sent in a tube.

Materials used:

print on Hahnemühle Fine Art Pearl 285g

Tags:
#yellow #black #london #optimism #balloon 
Optimism (2015)
Photograph
by Malika Sqalli

£384.48 Alert

  • Photograph on Paper
  • From a limited edition of 8
  • Size: 47 x 31 x 0.1cm (unframed) / 45 x 30cm (actual image size)
  • Signed and numbered certificate of authenticity
  • Style: Photorealistic
  • Subject: Still life
Artwork description
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Optimism

London. Summertime. The great british weather. 
It rained everyday that summer. 
That day I had enough and felt like, you know what? I will go and sit in my garden with my bikini on, under the rain and pretend its summer. If only I had a yellow balloon handy to pretend it is the sun.
That day sparked this whole series on Optimism and enthousiasm. It became a pretext to speak about eternal optimism, not giving in to circumstances but finding a way out, with a smile.
It is a candid, childlike, spontaneous endeavour, an urban fairytale where my weapon was a smile and a balloon. For the next couple of years, I carried yellow balloons with me, and when the setting felt right, or the scenario came to me, I would take the picture, from Paternoster in South Africa to Marrakech in Morocco, to Brentwood Los Angeles in the USA, to Forest hill, South London in England.

This one was made on One tree Hill in South London

This print is available in 3 sizes.
12 x 18 ins
18x24 ins
24x36 ins

All prints come with a small border, printed on archival Hahnemühle Fine Art pearl paper and come with a certificate of authenticity and its matching Hologram.
They are sent flat to avoir any creasing or damage that may occur when larger images are sent in a tube.

Materials used:

print on Hahnemühle Fine Art Pearl 285g

Tags:
#yellow #black #london #optimism #balloon 

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Malika Sqalli

Location Austria

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I am an artist of Austrian and Moroccan descent, between photography, mixed media and poetry. Coming from a mixed culture background and having lived in various countries and without... Read more

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