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Artwork details
- Medium : Oil on Canvas
- Other details : Artwork on supported wooden frame. Ready to hang. Framing on request.
- Dimensions : 47.2x31.5in
About this artwork
The canvas hums in shades of blue, layered with emotion and depth. Three curved stripes of yellow-green sweep from the top right to the bottom right — a pulse of life running diagonally across the calm. In the upper left, the Sun–Moon circle glows dark, holding only one flame, the faint spark of order surrounded by near-total chaos. The Moon curves into a crescent like those crowning Gulf mosques, enclosing a single flame that burns from within.…
From above descends a black widow, her posture tense and predatory. Her red stripe lies across her back, inverted from nature, streaked with yellow and green, echoing the energy of the world she dominates. Around her, splashes of white and black scatter like fragments of conflict.
This painting captures the unsettling essence of the Devouring Mother — the transformation of love into control, of protection into possession. It embodies chaos at its near-total form: the moment when nurturing becomes consuming.
From above descends a black widow, her posture tense and predatory. Her red stripe lies across her back, inverted from nature, streaked with yellow and green, echoing the energy of the world she dominates. Around her, splashes of white and black scatter like fragments of conflict.
This painting captures the unsettling essence of the Devouring Mother — the transformation of love into control, of protection into possession. It embodies chaos at its near-total form: the moment when nurturing becomes consuming.
Mohammad Alkhoory
United Arab Emirates
Credentials
- Featured in gallery curations
- Works on commission
Mohammad Alkhoory is a painter and conceptual artist with a diverse background shaped by mentorship and self-education across the Middle East and Europe. His vibrant works synthesize cubism, surrealism, fauvism, symbolism, and abstract art, creating visually layered compositions that probe existential themes. Alkhoory’s art becomes a personal quest for truth, confronting the balance of order and chaos, and ultimately conveys a deep, raw emotional struggle—urging viewers to wrestle with life’s meaning and confront its hardships with resilience.