“I look for a poetic string, for a beautiful color, for a moving detail, for an inspiring space, for languages that others can read and worlds that children can imagine.”
Bio:
Lena is an illustrator and an animator. She freelances in various fields, doing independent short films, comics, children books and awareness campaigns. She teaches and gives workshops in animation, illustration, comic books, and design for children.
Her work is grounded in play and in the love of detail in henna and arabesque.
Statement:
I look for a poetic string, for a beautiful color, for a moving detail, for an inspiring space, for languages that others can read and worlds that children can imagine.
Drawing the War (2002) is the first film I made, and the start of my quest. My brush flowed on pages and pages, attempted at reconstructing and translating the images and the movement in my mind, in new images, only to draw me to another urge and another. My work is mostly about reconciling the contradictions that surrounds me in a new language that renders my voice best.
Bits of Lives (2005), my second film, is a search in the moment, the gap between what was an event and what is about to become one. It was an exploration of the tension between the banal and the heavy, the slippery and the scar, and mostly the network of all the components of encounters.
Vanilia (2005) is both in the conception and in the narrative, an accumulation of effort and deceit, search and despair, joy and loss.
Today, I sip and enjoy this process that keeps me hungry for the thousands of possibilities my work could take form in.
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