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Accession Number |
2004.10.00 |
Catalog Number |
2004.10.01 |
Object Name |
Necklace |
Collection |
Hussam Fadhli |
Description |
Ancient Iraqi necklace. As a boy growing up in Baghdad, Hussam Fadhli was torn between his interest in the arts and his proficiency in science. His desire to become a physician won. He moved to the United States in 1975 to complete his medical post-graduate studies, and later opened a private practice in Texas. In 1969, he became the first surgeon to perform an open-heart surgery in southeast Texas. Dr. Fadhli could not abandon his artistic interests. In watching his wife, Bridgette, with her Arabian horses, he developed a desire to translate the beauty and spirit of the horses into sculpture. A self-taught artist, Dr Fadhli's work has been displayed at the 2002 Olympic Winter Games and is in the collection of the Bush Presidential Library. Hussam often uses his old medical instruments in creating his work and says that the two disciplines are not that different. "Surgery is the transformation of mental ideas into operation. Sculpting is the transformation of ideas into the medium you are using." |
Search Terms |
Iraq Iraqi Americans |
Subjects |
Necklaces |
Lexicon category |
3: Personal Artifacts |