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It's not too late to sign up to my #SquareKufic class, which kicks off Friday on Zoom and doesn't require prior knowledge of Arabic. Based on the tradition as it flourished in #Khorasan between the 13th and 16th centuries, we'll learn to work with multiple grids and how to get creative with the script without breaking it.
Details and sign up here:
https://www.arabbritishcentre.org.uk/courses/square-kufic-calligraphy-with-joumana-medlej/
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Another throwback: WHO AM I, acrylic on paper, hand-cut, assembled on canvas.122x122x3 cm. 2014
The large blue word is Ana: me or I. But come closer and it dissolves into hundreds of other pronouns: he, she, they… (هو هما هم هي هما هن)
What “I” believed to be “me” is really an accumulation of elements from society, parents, friends etc that have buried my real nature. The question is, will peeling away all these pieces reveal something, or only a liberating emptiness? -
I sometimes make process videos for techniques I use or the making of entire pieces (forced into it, like many artists, by another algorithmic site). Right now I'm making a few small-scale editions of my piece Loss, with the same materials and techniques: cut paper, gold leaf and plant dyes that will fade in time. I'm having quite a lot of fun boiling up colour plants again to dye paper scraps.