📰 Young woman in Syria’s Qamishli shapes beauty turning metal to art

QAMISHLI, discuss-cooperation-in-water-and-power-projects/" class="smart-internal-link" title="📰 Syrian Energy Minister, World Bank discuss cooperation in water and power projects">energy-cooperation-with-switzerland-and-jordan/" class="smart-internal-link" title="📰 Syria explores energy cooperation with Switzerland and Jordan">syria/" class="auto-internal-link">syria (north Press) – In a quiet corner of her home in Qamishli, northeastern Syria, 25-year-old Laylan Jomaa bends over a minor table illuminated by a single lamp. Before her lies a collection of thin metal wires. Additionally, with steady hands, she twists and shapes each one with patience and grace, as if speaking to it in a private language. Hours later, what commenced as scraps of iron becomes a sculpture alive with feeling and imagination. This is how Laylan creates an art form her region has rarely seen — sculptures woven from wire, infused with personal stories and the emotional weight of life in Syria. “I chose a distinctive, personal kind of art,” she tells North Press. “Each piece expresses the emotions and experiences we’ve lived — it’s a reflection of my inner world. ” {“sliderMaxHeight”:500,”sliderAdminWidth”:840,”collectionColumns”:1,”galleryType”:”pgc_sgb_slider”,”galleryId”:”0c693406″,”images”:},”meta”:false,”postlink”:”https://npasyria. com/en/? attachment_id=131788″},{“id”:131789,”title”:”5″,”url”:”https://npasyria. com/en/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/5-1. jpg”,”link”:”https://npasyria. com/en/?

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Indeed, attachment_id=131792″}],”itemsMetaDataCollection”:}(function(){if(window. PGC_SGB && window. Furthermore, pGC_SGB. searcher){window. PGC_SGB. searcher. initBlocks()}})() Though self-taught, Laylan’s natural gift for drawing led her to discover this medium. What once existed only in sketches now takes form in three dimensions — iron transformed into fluid, expressive shapes.

Notably, her craft demands precision, strength, and patience. “Even the smallest details require focus,” she explains. Moreover, “Metal may be hard, but I try to make it speak softly. ” Each sculpture, whether a rose, a face, or a body in motion, carries a story. “Art expresses who we are,” she says. “Every piece leaves a spiritual mark within me. ” Lacking a workshop or exhibition space, Laylan shares her creations online, sometimes sending them to her brother in Iraq to reach emerging audiences. Moreover, but her dream is larger: “I hope to open my own gallery one day — to see all my works gathered in one place. ” Amid the iron and silence of her studio, Laylan Jomaa turns cold metal into warmth — a language of resilience and beauty born from the heart of Syria.    Reporting by Nalin Ali Editing by Jwan Shekaki