LandEscape Art Review, Special Edition

Lola Awada

Lola is a multi-disciplinary artist creating across different media, including painting, sculpture, photography and photomontages, as such, her work is quite varied. She has always perceived visual arts like music: a magical therapeutic tool, a universal mode of communication that does not require any form of translation whatsoever.Nature and the interconnectedness of everything in and with nature are her deepest inspiration. Music is another major inspiration of hers and the music she listens to when she creates becomes a part of the artwork. She likes to call it “the secret ingredient” in her work. Many of the visuals she creates were born within a specific song or melody. ​ Her work simultaneously straddles nature, humanity, spirituality, magic, fantasy and what she refers to as "harsh realities" but because she is a firm believer in Dostoyevsky's saying that "beauty will save the world," she always aims to create a visually appealing final result. Her hope is that anyone who looks at her work will feel a rush of positive energy and an awakening of their sense of wonder. She does not seek to shock; she seeks to soothe. Even when working on several projects simultaneously, there is almost always a "meeting point" between the various projects she works on, as if each was somehow an essential part of the other and as if these various projects were different parts of a same "whole." She currently has several projects going on, including an (almost completed) art installation titled (for the moment)“Treepalace Garden of Peace and Energy”which consists of several small sculptures and many other elements. This Treepalace Garden is meant to represent a haven of tranquillity in which to recharge and reconnect with oneself and the world around us, in an attempt to approach what is referred to as “inner peace”and which she personally feels is a first step everyone should take if we are ever to attain World Peace.