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Painting, Shell Gold on Parchment
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The text is an islamic hadith (a saying of the Prophet): "There is a burnish for everything, and the burnish for hearts is the Remembrance of God." I illustrated it by writing it entirely in burnished shell gold, on parchment, on the model of 9th-century chrysographic Qur’ans. Other pigments used a...
2022
Painting, Shell Gold on Parchment
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15 W x 21 H x 0.1 D cm
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I'm a British-Lebanese artist who moved from Beirut to East London about a decade ago. I'm best known for reviving archaic styles of Arabic calligraphy (the Kufi scripts) and the medieval art materials that accompany them. My work reflects my experience of the world as being alive with mystery. It invites the viewer to step into this forgotten space by holding them in wonder and stillness: in this vulnerable moment, when one is silenced by beauty and by not-knowing, remembrance can stir. To this end, the work takes on different shapes, from images of contemplation made up of unreadable words to multisensory interactive objects that tell an unspoken story.
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