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| Banner in front of the anti-Morsi encampment across the street from the Presidential palace, Merghany Street, Heliopolis. |
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| Revolution Exhibition #2 (the other is at Tahrir) |
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| Inside the exhibition |
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View from exhibition enclosure looking across Merghany street to Presidential palace.
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| Encampment tents in traffic circle across the street from the Heliopolis Club. |
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| Anti-Morsi banner. |
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| Martyrs of the revolution. |
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| Merghany street concrete barricades to control access around the Presidential Palace. This is the area where there was serious fighting between the Brothers and the opposition about 2 weeks ago. Things seem quiet now, but the anniversary of the revolution is coming up on Jan. 25 - and no-one seems to know what that day will bring. |
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| Close up of the concrete cubes that make up the barricade. |
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| Red and white texts: "No gods but god, and Mohamed is the prophet." Underneath these two texts are anti-Morsi slogans that have been written over by a presumably Muslim Brotherhood activist. A very cool piece that reminds me of the art work of the former San Francisco poet laureate, Jack Hirschman, whose work I'm going to be featuring in an upcoming WC gallery show. |
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| It seemed to be common knowledge that the only reason the Brotherhood want power was to make as much money as possible. |
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| Anti-Morsi opposition use the symbol of a sheep to ridicule the Brothers and during demonstrations they will taunt them by bahhing like sheep. |
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| All around the Presidential palace side streets are stashed these portable barbed wire barricades, ready for use at the next sign of trouble. |
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| Anti-Morsi stencil, Heliopolis |
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| Balcony of our apartment in Heliopolis. |
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| Arda, my wife, is in the process of sorting through the household effects of her parents who both passed this summer. The apartment is filled with tables of different objects, and table ware. A series of collections really. |
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| Approach to Tahrir square. |
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| We were briefly waylaid as we got closer to the square... |
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| The young boy was indicating that he didn't want any photographs taken. |
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| Just off Tahrir square is Mohamed Mahmoud street which has an amazing selection of graffiti & stencil art, and memorials to those killed in the revolution. It's a crazy energetic smorgasboard of voices. All the following works can be found there. Here's a link to a great site about street art and graffiti during the uprising. Revolution Graffiti - Street Art of the New Egypt |
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| The Revolution exhibition. A chronology of events with graphic documentation and lots of handwritten texts. |
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| After Tahrir we went to an opening of works by contemporary artist Mohamed Abla at Art Corner gallery in Zamalek. Lots of small works from different periods of his career, for the most part all before the revolution. It's a fascinating mini-survey charting his evolution both formally as well as his changing subject matter. |
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| Two very different works that have a different kind of energy than the others. In the work on the left Abla incorporates the infamous 'blue bra' image of state brutality to women. |
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| Abla in the center with cap. |
