See also the gold and red version. Limited edition silkscreen prints (ivory on black, with or without gold) are available
Having attended a Sufi sema3 ceremony, I was fascinated by a dhikr (remembrance) chant that repeated 2 sentences in an endlessly repetitive sequence, like a mantra: Allahu akbar Allahu akbar La ilah ella Allah The circling music, along with the well-known circling dance, is one of the tools used by Sufis to reach a state of ego-less ecstasy, vanishing into Love. Accordingly, in this design, the two circles spell out the two stanzas, and like the music and the dance, the design circles endlessly on the paper…
The design and script were entirely created by me. The original and work process can be seen on my website
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Thanks for sharing with the Art of the Middle East group.