At her modest home in the northern Gaza Strip Sahar Wishah joined the world of arts by turning iron and wooden tools into beautiful paintings.
Wishah tells the PIC of her experience in the field of arts which is not her school major of Basic Education “I got to know this rare art in Gaza a year ago and I work on drawing different characters and paintings” she says.
The girl uses nails threading wooden boards and a small iron hammer to create those drawings and artworks. She is relying on the internet and the visual materials published on it to develop her artistic talent.
This art which attracted many citizens and the Palestinian and Arab public dates back to the Ottoman era.
In addition to using nails and threads the girl creates other types of art such as acrylic and drawing on glass using water colors and coal.
Sahar aspires to create an art gallery in the Gaza Strip and to travel to other countries to market her work and exhibit it at international arts exhibitions.
After a year of constant work in the production and drawing of paintings Sahar was able to draw more than 15 paintings “despite the great efforts needed to draw them due to the high accuracy of this art.”
“Women become creative with their efforts and everyone who want to achieve something needs will and determination to realize it and I have reached an advanced level of achievement despite the challenges and difficulties” she says.
The most important challenge she has encountered according to her is that the work and arts she does have been historically associated with men being derived from the profession of carpentry.
“The art is not much available for girls as a profession. It is for young men and any girl willing to join the field has to have experience in carpentry” she notes.
She explained that because of the siege of the Gaza Strip for 12 years she has not been able to access all tools needed to complete her work in fine arts paintings such as copper threads and some nails of a special kind.
