Plastic artist and writer Mari ... Multiple talents between word and color

Damascus-Sana

The relationship between painting and poetry is an interactive relationship and it makes many poets artists express their insides and dealings with the surroundings, sometimes with a pen and at other times with a pen, and one of these is the writer and plastic artist Ali Mohamed Merhi.

In an interview with Sana, Marai talks about his relationship with color, which dates back to the elementary stage, when he was drawing with pencil and wooden colors, the pictures contained in the school books, and this developed into drawing some human faces and some vocabulary of the surrounding silent nature that met with approval and acceptance, which prompted him to repeat his experience and polish his talent diligently. My personal, so he developed to write Arabic calligraphy to use later in the painting.

The painting's drawing starts at Mari from a mood that does not need preparation. Rather, he implements it if the tools and mood are available because it is an expressive form that expresses a state within it, so the painting may restore some serenity and take the artist to moments of contemplation and joy.

Merhi does not adhere to a specific technique when he paints, but depends on what he finds in front of him and may complete a whole painting from a simple one, indicating that he resorted in the last period to creating paintings using dry ink and other techniques of wood, water and felt.

During this hot atmosphere, Mari tends to paint a riverine nature in which he senses a refreshing coolness, as he paints a silent nature that pulsates with beauty and light.

And about writing literature, he clarifies that it did not go beyond initially attempts that included stories, poetry and sentimental thoughts, but it needed encouragement and refinement, indicating that the poet Ahmed Ali Hassan put it on the road and took his hand.

Mari has published several books of studies, poetry collections and novels through which he documented the Syrian heritage and social relations in Syria during the period of the French occupation, including the book (Sheikh Saad's Village Between Past and Present - Memory and History) in addition to his book which he issued in the spoken language entitled (Yama), which has its own specificity and connection In the village community, in addition to his novel (Rugged Mountain Roads) issued by the Syrian General Authority for Book and others.

Bilal Ahmad