Contemporary Artist Armen Agop is Carving Silence in Stone & Souls
In the hushed corridors of a near-empty Cairo museum, a teenage boy would slip past indifferent guards to sit cross-legged before a Van Gogh. Not a reproduction, but the real thing; brushstrokes thick with, as he saw it, anxiety and desire. For hours, he’d study how light clung to poppy flowers that he could tell weren’t really about flowers, but about fighting depression.
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