Having over Ali Ferzat at the institute and understanding his thoughts through his translator friend or co worker and seeing his gestures while expressing his thoughts was much more effective and admirable to know about him. I really enjoyed the experience of having over an important artist that is important and talented at his natural artistic intelligible artwork that has made a very large impact on what he passed through.
Thinking about it and looking at the real scenario of Ali Ferzat's experience, I realise how in life we pass through hard times to do what we love to do. Some people just give up, but others keep strong and they would do anything for their talent to keep going on, I rephrase on what Ali Ferzat has said to the audience that were there, including myself, he said that he was born to be as a cartoonist and it is his spirit, he also said that ''An artist should practice what he teaches'', from the last phrase he said made me think a lot because it has a good meaningful value, especially it encourages the people to do what they love doing by keeping up their practice on their spiritual or rather devotional work that they do. One can not teach without having the sentimental value practice that needs to be instructed to others that are interested on a particular subject.
That moment when Ferzat shared his past experience of the time when the people that wanted to break his hands to stop continuing drawing, one really should realise how much we should not take life fore granted and start realising how people would want to stop you from what you love doing because they would know you're good at what you do, but they would just want to destroy what you do.
Ferzat enphasises that he is not a politician himself, but his art is about expressing yourself. He said that he knows that the politic is something very serious and so he said that he enjoys giving them hard time by expressing what they do in reality and how they are destroying with what they do wrong.
Ali Ferzat said that one day it will end, but how it is going at the moment they are tasting their own blood.
He continues on arguing that art is more powerful than anything on earth. He only carries a pencil and something that he finds it very effective to that particular moment or mind thought he would be able to let out his reflection. He argues that the duty on art is to help make change in Syria.
Ali Ferzat said that he finds himself as an important figure because they never had anyone that expressed these type of messages about politician through works of art.
An important point that taught me through what he said is ''when art carries the pain of the people and expressing it widely, people will love you and even protect you''. It's peoples power that kept Ali Ferzat alive and this reflects well on the effectiveness of the power from below. He said that if people hated him they would have killed him along time ago. The civil society said that they wanted him alive and not dead, so thanks to his people that support him Ali Ferzat remained with us.
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