The $95-a-ticket workshop began at 5 p.m. and ended at 7:30 p.m. — a half hour after Mamdani, Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa took to the debate stage.... The workshop was set to focus on “fruit iconography with damascene tile design,” where participants would design their “own ceramic tiles to take home”....
Rama Duwaji was scheduled to teach people who'd paid $95 for the experience and to take home a tile on which they'd painted some fruit. Sounds like a children's birthday party idea, but okay. She has a life of her own. She's not just some little woman sitting there, gazing at her man from the audience.
ADDED: I don't want to seem to belittle Damascene tiles, so here you can see a tile panel from the Metropolitan Museum collection, made in the Ottoman province of Syria, 16th/17th century.
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$95 is a little spendy for a pottery class.
She has a life of her own.
So? He's still her husband. What was the conversation like when she told him she wouldn't be there?
She's pro-Hamas, maybe more than her husband. Probably the campaign wants to keep her out of the eyesight of the media.
Sounds like fun. Skipping the mayoral debate, and the ceramic class.
Little Women
It sounds like an Islamic rom-com.
He's a Communist. She loves Hamas. Can these crazy kids win Manhattan?
She's not there for her husband. Is her husband not there for her? Sounds like a marriage of convenience, not love.
’fruit iconography with damascene tile design’
The description alone is worth $95.
In Home Alone 3, Mamdani is in the Trump tower, seizing everything.
“$95 is a little spendy for a pottery class.”
Maybe, but have you SEEN the price of Islamic damascene tile with fruit motifs lately?
Not just fruit motifs. Fruit iconography.
"Sounds like a children's birthday party idea, but okay."
Yes, these people are toddlers, and these mental infants are about to be voted powers far beyond their comprehension by their crèchemates.
"Rama Duwaji was scheduled to teach people who'd paid $95 for the experience and to take home a tile on which they'd painted some fruit. Sounds like a children's birthday party idea, but okay. She has a life of her own. She's not just some little woman sitting there, gazing at her man from the audience."
Except she and her husband want to own OUR lives. They want their own lives and us to not have OUR OWN. Her husband is campaigning on that. And if not, then Hamas and the left can kill us. We must sacrifice under socialist slavery so that she can have lavish champagne antifa weddings in Uganda.
“She's not just some little woman sitting there, gazing at her man from the audience [through the little window in her niqab].”
That, of course, would be Bill Clinton's little woman
She could have just stayed home and baked cookies.
Or baklava
Fruit is so iconic.
How would it go if she was running, and he went to the Hookah lounge instead of the debate?
$95 seems reasonable…
Well she could be baking chocolate chip cookies instead of mud pies made into tiles.
Bad news and good news, Rama. Your commie husband has promised to make all art lessons free in NYC, but he's going to let you buy the tiles from a city owned store (in the unlikely event they are in stock.)
I remember when we were supposed to be so wowed by Howard Dean's wife, the doctor, and how she didn't campaign with him and wasn't that just so inspiring.
This applies to Democrat politicians only, however, if a GOP candidate's spouse doesn't show up on the campaign trail it's evidence of domestic dystunction and should be consider disqualifying. Especially if that spouse was off doing something that reeked of wealth and privilege the way this tile painting exercise does. $95 could feed a family of four, at least one meal for the day given the price of groceries these days.
If I got free tickets to both, I'm picking the tile class.
Sounds like a children's birthday party idea, but okay.
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You nasty. Stop judging others. You waste your time watching ballgames? Sounds childish, but ok.
$95 is a little spendy for a pottery class.
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NYC.
And it was a painting class.
Maybe the gals who got together for a night outenjoyed some wine or refreshments w/the ticket? Not everybody can stay home snarking on their computers...
Do you guys ever read your Community Ed mailings (or do they not have that in your town?) Gals-night-out classes to paint something happen ever quarter... give them a break. The ladies like to get together and have their fun too. Don't judge that. The classes I see here are about $65 and you get to take something home after the night out from the kids/husband. I don't think that demographic is represented here lol.
Tofu King said...
If I got free tickets to both, I'm picking the tile class.
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Step on up, King!
We have a winner.
(This month it's something pumpkin-oriented they're making, with a red wine, I think... Of course, you don't have to drink.)
You can read about the debate in the morning when the kids are at school...
Sounds like a marriage of convenience, not love.
At least she didn't marry her brother... so far as we presently know.
I'm picking the tile class
#MeToo
She sounds like a cool person. I think its great she taught her class instead of sitting in the audience looking "concerned".
When it comes to the arts, people do what they can do. I'm sure she'd rather be challenging Rodin for "The greatest sculpter of all time" award, but y'know.
I'm definitely on team Mandingo. Pass the popcorn.
I love that she supports the people of Gaza and fair treatment for the oppressed Palestinians. That takes Guts, especially when you live in NYC.
I did pottery in college, "damascene" seems aspirational: https://www.ramaduwaji.com/ceramics
'Tis better to glaze than to gaze.
The hamas publicist supporting wife
absolument ...
Rama Duwaji is a Syrian illustrator and animator based in Brooklyn, NYC.
Using drawn portraiture and movement, Rama examines the nuances of sisterhood and communal experiences. Through this lens she has worked with a variety of clients, most notably The New Yorker, The Washington Post, BBC, Apple, Spotify, VICE and the Tate Modern. She has also taught workshops on both illustration and animation alongside It’s Nice That in 2021.
Though mostly working in the digital medium, Rama often takes a break from all things technology to create hand built ceramics. She combines her love for illustration and pottery to create handmade, illustrated plates and enjoys sharing these skills through ceramic workshops as well.
I despise her husband and everything he stands for, but her presence or absence at another dreary lunge up the greasy pole of politics has got to be the bottom story of the day.
Did you see that little smurf try and fail to bench 135 lbs the other day? My usual workout is 3 sets of 10 with almost twice that much, and I'm close to twice his age.
Socialism really does attract the most dysgenic and dysfunctional among us. I wonder what that noodle-armed Hogg kid can bench. I wonder what Lenin could have benched. Not much more, if any.
Stalin looked like he could have gotten two plates up, though.
Damn bomb maker.
They have chosen the form of their destroyer
“She's not just some little woman sitting there, gazing at her man from the audience [through the little window in her niqab].” Meade
Furthermore, it might have been damaging psychologically to her to hear her husband being severely criticized in public. Probably Mr. Mamdani suggested she arrange to be elsewhere.
Why, oh why, great Althouse, do you show a museum quality tile from a museum exhibit of tile, instead of what the woman in the story can produce in the way of artistry worth $95 a pop to spend time with the wife of a potential NY mayor? Can the woman do a tile of, say, half museum quality, more or less? Or is this article telling us about legal bribery of the wife of the future NY mayor?
It's debatable who wasted their time the most. The women making tiles or the people listening to her husband.
Mandami's wife has been disappeared entirely from AI. Do you wonder why? If not, why not? She has also largely been disappeared from ordinary search engines, and though a few photos of her appear in the "images" category, the links are broken.
That's not cute or independent or about her love for ceramics: it's nefarious and highly coordinated with online platforms.
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