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These visuals were then recreated by a machine on large paper rolls at the exhibition area. The wide variety of bread diaries included individual submissions from Chile to China, South Africa to Denmark, as well as my home land, Egypt. Each bread drawing symbolizes the voice through which boundless acts of protests have been once remarkably echoed and recorded throughout the history of humanity.ДЄ number of 100+ black vector drawings of bread were collected, alongside my own, from people from all over the world, via Mechanical Turk. Bread went from merely being a nutritional necessity upon which people heavily rely on since the dawn of agriculture, to becoming a universal language through which people communicate their demands and views one that people from all over the world agreed to utilize as an act of protest.ДЇor that sole reality, the second version of the project, вЂњ Collective Bread Diaries: A Taste of ProtestвЂќ, came to being as an art installation at which people from all over the world are granted the opportunity to draw and share their personal visual representations of bread, eventually forming an array of visual diaries, with each diary peculiar to its creator. The significance of bread surpassed its traditional boundaries that have long been rooted in our cultures and heritages. The more I realized how bread was the trigger behind innumerable protests worldwide, the more I came to view it as a universal potent act of protest.

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From this, stemmed the project вЂњBread DiariesвЂќ back in 2011, which involved a diverse series of bread drawings, silk screen prints, and monochrome photography, delivering to the viewer an unusual visual interpretation of what they perceive as the вЂњstaff of lifeвЂќ. I felt the urge to visually express my perception of bread, communicating the great significance of which it had become to me. This prevailing wave of flour power was the seed from which a deep personal interest in bread evolved and further developed.

These were the very chants cried out by thousands of people concisely expressing their economic, public, and social demands, echoing wildly throughout the streets of Egypt The vigorous events that echoed in the streets of Cairo throughout the 25th of January revolution have had a huge impact on my personal perception of bread in both cultural and political contexts, as an Egyptian citizen and artist.

Bread diary