Communion

2021

Acrylic and gold leaf on canvas

60 x 90 cm

In this vivacious accolade to the United Arab Emirates, Lobert combines all the elements of her intimate fondness with the federation into a raucous collage of paint and intuitive symbolism. The electric orange of torrid heat waves, the gold that permeates all physical space, the columns of grandeur buildings, and the ever present whites of the sun infiltrating all. Shapes lean to and fro as if bending in the humid waves, lending a rocking sensation to this visual lullaby concocted by an artist who carries within her this abiding appreciation for one of her physical journey’s earliest intimacies with the world as home.