Sinan Hussein's exhibition "Just a Trip" recently concluded in Stal Gallery, Muscat . I was fascinated by the convoluted narratives and could identify with the forms depicted on large, colourful oil paintings on show. In many ways Hussein had created a dream-like, escapist world where realism and logic had been replaced by the dreamlike world of his mind, his so-called “secret landscape” where there were no limits to what can or cannot be possible and different creatures coexisted in harmony on his canvases.Though there was a lot of symbolism in the works, I did not not wish to understand the artist's point of view but wanted instead to allow the canvases to speak to me directly and to draw my own conclusions.I found it interesting to think how we have an urge for meaning making and wish to "understand" the whys in works of art.Why can't we leave a mystery an unsolved mystery?
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