Eight Hundred Canvas Print
Designed and sold by majnouna
$51.90
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Canvas PrintStretched canvas over wooden frame
$51.90
Product features
- Art just feels more arty when it's on canvas
- Custom hand-stretched for your order
- Vibrant colors on gallery-grade canvas
- Printed image wraps approximately 1/4 inch (6mm) over the edges; the sides are white
- Hanging hardware included for both portrait and landscape orientations
- Since every item is made just for you by your local third-party fulfiller, there may be slight variances in the product received
Eight Hundred
Arabic is called “the language of Ḍad”, because this letter exists in no other language. Whether that’s absolutely true, I don’t know, but it is certainly an unusual sound, a deep D from the throat. The numerical value of Ḍad is 800, so I set out to create a pattern out of 800 letters, not mechanically but with a bamboo reed and ink, and no margin for any error. In a reversal of the deadening trend of traditional calligraphy, which consists in training the hand till it mechanically draws the exact same character every time, I gave each of these hundreds of letters my full attention and intention, looking for its essence through imperceptible variations from one to the other: lengthening the tail, narrowing or widening the space inside the letter, rounding the angles. In the changing thickness of the lines, you can read the wearing out and re-cutting of the reed. The result is that they are all the same letter, but they are still all unique. This also created a variegated texture, with the feel of cloth hand-woven out of coarse-spun thread.
For more information on the original piece, see http://majnouna.com/portfolio/800/
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