This is a game that relies on absolute luck, so you are not happy if you win or sad if you lose. If you were a brick, the paper covered you. If you were paper, the scissors would cut you, and if you were scissors, you broke the brick. The mood of this game was the general situation for all of humanity after 2020. A person thinks that he is strong and is covered with paper, and an expression is imprinted on his face… Or he thinks that it is sharp like a scissor and breaks the bricks and leaves another expression… Or it is light like paper, then scissors cut it, leaving a third and fourth expression… Thousands of expressions.

Astonished, Upset, Withdrawn, and Waiting…

And when I look at those faces, I look at myself in the mirror, because I am with them in the game and I do not know if I am a brick, paper, or scissors.

About the Artist

Nora Baraka graduated from the faculty of Applied Arts, Graphics section in 2007. She studied sociology at Ain Shams University in 2011. Baraka obtained several interdisciplinary diplomas- “The child psychotherapeutic counseling program” – Ain Shams University – 2009 “Correction of child’s behavior through art” Centro Italiano di soldarieta di Roma – 2010. “Primary health care for children program” Medecins du Monde – 2011. Nora worked in several NGOs in the “Women and Children at risk” program in both Egypt and Lebanon, the most recent being the position of director and coordinator for “the women at risk center” – Caritas, Egypt- 2011.