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Top 3 Cheap Direct Travel
Destinations from UAE This July

Top 3 Cheap Direct Travel
Destinations from UAE This July

Tom Wambsgans at a wedding (photo credit: Tatler Website)
Tom Wambsgans at a wedding (photo credit: Tatler Website)

The summer has already begun and most of us think about how to spend our vacations by travelling around the world. In order to help you with ideas on where to travel in July, below I provide my view on what are the top 3 best direct travel destinations with the cheapest prices. Please kindly note that airways are regularly changing prices so there is no guarantee the same price mentioned below will be kept.

Abu Dhabi – Colombo (Sri Lanka) – from AED 759 / roundtrip (Etihad)

Dates: 1 – 4/5 July 2024

Airlines: Etihad

What to see on Sri Lanka?

Little Adam Peak

Nine Arch Bridge

Sigirya Lion rock

Little Adam Peak

Nine Arch Bridge

Sigirya Lion rock

Little Adam Peak

Nine Arch Bridge

Sigirya Lion rock

Hikkaduwa Beach

Ramboda Falls

Colombo City

ECOSYSTEM

Positive growth.

Nature, in the common sense, refers to essences unchanged by man; space, the air, the river, the leaf. Art is applied to the mixture of his will with the same things, as in a house, a canal, a statue, a picture.

But his operations taken together are so insignificant, a little chipping, baking, patching, and washing, that in an impression so grand as that of the world on the human mind, they do not vary the result.

The sun setting through a dense forest.
Wind turbines standing on a grassy plain, against a blue sky.
The sun shining over a ridge leading down into the shore. In the distance, a car drives down a road.

Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable. We must trust the perfection of the creation so far, as to believe that whatever curiosity the order of things has awakened in our minds, the order of things can satisfy. Every man’s condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put.

Art, and the process of making things has always been the primary way that I am able to process, and understand the world

Albert Flores

Whatever the project, however, the exciting part for Dana is “the way I can surprise myself with a combination of colours I have never seen before but remind me of something that I miss.” And this is exactly what she plans to continue doing, with plans for a group show in October and several artists residencies in the coming year. “Between now and then I am continuing to explore materials, ask questions and make scarfs,” she says.

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Currently based in New York, a city she’s called home since graduating from the School of Visual Arts with an MFA in fine art in 2019, Dana tells us she’s simply never been interested in being anything other than an artist. “Art, and the process of making things has always been the primary way that I am able to process, and understand the world,” she explains. It was at SVA that her unique practice formed, as she explored “digital art, web, fashion, 3D design and printmaking on top of painting and drawing” during her undergrad in graphic design.

  • Through her artistic practice, Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck invites positivity into everyday life
  • Art duo Mazaccio & Drowilal use collage to deconstruct popular culture
  • Rosanna Webster, Fon and Fa, and Parker Heyl embody the human qualities of creativity through experimentation
  • Through rich and colourful symbolism, Bony Ramírez uses art to reflect on his Caribbean culture

Founded by French-Lebanese sisters Laura and Sophie Tabet, as well as Ulysse Sabbagh, in partnership with Lebanese creatives Flavie Audi and Emilie Kareh, stock will be added to the store weekly until early January. “We have been humbled by the number of people who have come forward and answered the call to help Lebanon,” says founder Laura Tabet. “In these dark times, it’s deeply heartening to witness the artistic community coming together to create a movement that is beyond politics and beyond borders.”

One example of this is Ebony Reprinted, a series of monoprints that present “the healing possibilities of abstraction.” To make the works, Dana used images that circulated in printed adverts and distorted them using paint to “remove traces of exploitative, white-dominated, capitalist, visual language and allow the individuals in these images to regain their agency.” She does this by smearing, pressing and adding texture to paint and, as the individuals and their faces becomes more abstract, the notion is that they also become “exponentially more present.”

As well as Beirut Re-Store’s marketplace, towards the end of October the platform will launch a “special collection of bespoke items” made in collaboration with non-profit organisation Creatives For Lebanon. This collection is already confirmed to feature contributions from Dior, Jean Paul Gaultier and Supriya Lee.

With a background in both graphic design and art, Dana Robinson’s practice sits at a fascinating intersection. She understands the power of combining imagery and text and the cultural and social connotations that come along with doing so, but she also embodies a freedom of expression often lacking in graphic design, meaning Dana’s portfolio errs towards abstraction and conceptual investigations. The onus of these investigations is on youth, Black female identity, ownership and nostalgia, topics she explores by combining, reproducing and deconstructing vintage materials, found objects and paint.

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