In Children of the Dust, Ayed Jasem captures the fragile poetry of childhood through abstraction. The intertwined figures, rendered in vivid reds, pinks, and ochres, appear to emerge from memory rather than from reality — echoes of innocence caught in the turbulence of time.
The painterly energy of the work, both playful and melancholic, reflects the artist’s ability to translate emotion into movement. Jasem’s brushwork dissolves form into feeling, leaving behind only traces of tenderness and loss suspended in color.
