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Create unique, bold designs and innovate under the old spirit by putting heritage on a new plateau.
Explore Timeless Designs
Create unique, bold designs and innovate under the old spirit by putting heritage on a new plateau.
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FACE FROM ANOTHER WORLD
My collection 'Face From Another World' is a collection of exquisite miniature embroideries based on the Palestinian embroidery traditions, history & heritage. In this collection, my goal is to revive the historic Palestinian embroidery traditions into an art of coded messages. Our ancestors used different motifs, patterns, and colours to tell about themselves. In my collection, I am using different motifs & designs, but under the same traditions, to tell our story now and our aspirations which are different than our ancestors. Some pieces have bold and hidden motifs, as in the 'Blood & Stars' piece. Sometimes I am using the same design in a set of pieces where I strip the design gradually from one piece to the other to deliver my message, as I did in the 'Segregation Wall' pieces. I used positive stability with four pillars to show our commitment and aspiration to return to our homes and land in the 'Return' piece. On the other hand, in the 'Soldiers & Flag' piece, I used negative stability with the other four pillars to indicate stagnation & castles tops for the ideologies they hold. In the 'Tolerance & Coexistence' piece, I used different hues of red and oranges in a boiler to indicate bad heat 'hatred' as opposed to the same hues our ancestors used to indicate good heat 'love' as a reminder to the love, tolerance & coexistence our ancestors enjoyed.
The collection of 'Face From Another World' is set in a way to follow a storyline where the audience would be inspired by the artistic miniature embroideries & the storyline explanation that comes with. It should be noted that all my work has been designed, narrated, and hand-knit by me and executed during the last five years.
Face From Another World
2016
16cm x 14.7cm x 0.025cm
A world under siege... Tired almost falling face, but will not melt cause it acquired the wire look and feel out of the surroundings in which he/she lives & got used to... Tensions zipping the eyes... Cried for long now you can see on the face topography grove canyon under the eyes. This face is magnetic, resilient & from another world. It is another world we don't know about... Dedicated to all nations under siege...
'Face From Another World'
Copyright Ziad Qweider
(All Designs Protected By Law)
'وجه من عالم آخر'
مسجل تحت حقوق الملكيه الفكريه للمالك زياد قويدر
التصاميم جميع الحقوق محفوظه لزياد قويدر
Heritage On A New Plateau
2016
5.3cm x 4.4cm x 0.025cm
I consider this piece is the cell that I created to carry Palestinian heritage into more 21st century... Closer to our Islamic traditions but on a 21st century plateau... It is a piece to be enjoyed and not to be talked about!
'Face From Another World'
Copyright Ziad Qweider
(All Designs Protected By Law)
'وجه من عالم آخر'
مسجل تحت حقوق الملكيه الفكريه للمالك زياد قويدر
التصاميم جميع الحقوق محفوظه لزياد قويدر
Blood & Stars
2014
6.3cm x 13.2cm x 0.025cm
Rail of Blood Stars just fallen... They will retreat right and left high far above into sparkling dots... Some grids not yet filled, I am afraid many more war victims will follow... Into dots... Our stars...
'Face From Another World'
Copyright Ziad Qweider
(All Designs Protected By Law)
'وجه من عالم آخر'
مسجل تحت حقوق الملكيه الفكريه للمالك زياد قويدر
التصاميم جميع الحقوق محفوظه لزياد قويدر
Eternal Blood & Stars
2014
8.8cm x 64.7cm x 0.025
Rail of Eternal Blood Stars just fallen... They will retreat right and left high far above into sparkling dots... Some grids not yet filled, I am afraid many more war victims will follow... Into dots... Our stars...
'Face From Another World'
Copyright Ziad Qweider
(All Designs Protected By Law)
'وجه من عالم آخر'
مسجل تحت حقوق الملكيه الفكريه للمالك زياد قويدر
التصاميم جميع الحقوق محفوظه لزياد قويدر
Light & Hope Through Segregation Wall
2016
4.8cm x 4.3cm x 0.025cm
This is our hope that this Wall one day will disappear, and you can see here almost you have windows of hope starting to open here, cracking... You have flash here and there into more cracking, into disappearing, hopefully one day peacefully.
'Face From Another World'
Copyright Ziad Qweider
(All Designs Protected By Law)
'وجه من عالم آخر'
مسجل تحت حقوق الملكيه الفكريه للمالك زياد قويدر
التصاميم جميع الحقوق محفوظه لزياد قويدر
Life On Rope
2016
2.1cm x 13.7cm x 0.025cm
A language from another world... And why a language from another world because the whole nations came here in this big fight and all the news in all languages, it’s the story of the planet. All languages but as if no one is listening, no one is understanding, as if there is no way of communication. So I thought maybe we need a new language because suffering doesn't stop the war, the bloodshed, and the refugees. So maybe we need a new language... Here actually it was not easy to create a new language that doesn't look like any other language we know, yet I wanted it to be related to this area so it could be from our ancestors, from very early civilizations who lived here. I wanted every character to be very dynamic; every character here is one of us. This guy is catching to the rope with his hands facing him another character a guy catching the rope with his hands and legs, but at the end it is a rope and God knows if it breaks...
'Face From Another World'
Copyright Ziad Qweider
(All Designs Protected By Law)
'وجه من عالم آخر'
مسجل تحت حقوق الملكيه الفكريه للمالك زياد قويدر
التصاميم جميع الحقوق محفوظه لزياد قويدر
Soldiers & Flag
2015
4.2cm x 8.1cm x 0.025cm
The four-pillar design represents negative stability... Stagnation. Four soldiers, unfortunately, the guys they recruit these days and one of them is holing a flag the old parade way Nazi Germany. The top of the piece are castles' tops, which they carry, the ideologies they hold giving stagnation for the whole region. Here, unfortunately, they are celebrating death, which is not part of our culture or religion.,
'Face From Another World'
Copyright Ziad Qweider
(All Designs Protected By Law)
'وجه من عالم آخر'
مسجل تحت حقوق الملكيه الفكريه للمالك زياد قويدر
التصاميم جميع الحقوق محفوظه لزياد قويدر
Architect into Flower
2016
10.4cm x 9.2cm x 0.025cm
An Architectural piece... Putting our heritage on a new plateau with a flow and a space, giving joy and pleasure to the viewer...
'Face From Another World'
Copyright Ziad Qweider
(All Designs Protected By Law)
'وجه من عالم آخر'
مسجل تحت حقوق الملكيه الفكريه للمالك زياد قويدر
التصاميم جميع الحقوق محفوظه لزياد قويدر
Heritage We Carry On Sail
2015
2.5cm x 5.8cm x 0.025cm
A rich piece in colour, design & technique gives an example on how some of the old Palestinian dresses were made. This also shows how rich is the heritage we carry with us this time on a sail design. This sail is one of three other sails. These sails resemble Palestinians in 1948, Palestinians in 1967, and Palestinians all around the world. These sails did not anchor yet.
'Face From Another World'
Copyright Ziad Qweider
(All Designs Protected By Law)
'وجه من عالم آخر'
مسجل تحت حقوق الملكيه الفكريه للمالك زياد قويدر
التصاميم جميع الحقوق محفوظه لزياد قويدر
Tolerance & Coexistence
2016
7.4cm x 5.0cm x 0.025cm
This design is all about Tolerance and Coexistence, the arrows are the forces that are going back and forth that cannot escape the container... It tells our story in the Middle East, where different religions were living in harmony for hundreds of years under Islam... Now these forces are clashing with each other unfortunately, and cannot escape the container, very thick, because in the end, no one will leave their beloved country. These arrows are equal in size and colour which means no one can win over another religion to eliminate it. Through colour variation, you get the feel of a boiler where these forces are clashing each other, and I am afraid this boiler will explode in our faces at the end.
'Face From Another World'
Copyright Ziad Qweider
(All Designs Protected By Law)
'وجه من عالم آخر'
مسجل تحت حقوق الملكيه الفكريه للمالك زياد قويدر
التصاميم جميع الحقوق محفوظه لزياد قويدر