Zuhar Blogs

I was in the mood of reading a classic novel, so I watched a couple of introductory videos about an author called Kafka, whom I know only by name. The topic that comes out first about his works that he has a style of writing called Kafkaesque, which is according to Google it means: "characteristic or reminiscent of the oppressive or nightmarish qualities of Franz Kafka's fictional world"   Oh, Lord!.. Oppressive?.. Nightmarish? There is noway that I would read such works! I was traumatized since trying out George Orwell's 1984 while I was in Syria. It was way too triggering for my depressive tendencies!. The world of 1984 is a carbon copy of a country like Syria, with our Big Brother posters hanging everywhere.    Therefore, I avoided reading Kafka for a while… …but watching an essay about his life and work was quite intriguing for me. One of the central ideas of Kafka's work that he describes our today's bureaucratic world as a prison for the...

  Looking at an AI image I generated with a help of a one-word prompt Through the discord channel during my free-trial period at Midjourney. Syria (An image of a warm-coloured painting of a crowd surrounded by a destroyed city) Many running thoughts and feelings through the last months came by thinking about that result: Surprised: to witness the edge of human technology. Inspired: by how accessible visual art is going to become, even for people who have not had the opportunity to learn the skills they longed for since childhood. As we are witnessing the age of democratising the arts. Each person no matter their skill level can finally bring their stories and imaginations to life. Excited: for all the people who were due circumstances, couldn't access their imagination. Not only thinking of Syrians like me, who were pushed to not pursue art (we say it in Arabic: Art it will not feed you bread). I am also thinking here about the aphantasia people, who for the first time in...