ARABIC CALLIGRAPHY

In 2018, Mr. Hajj Wafaa ran a course in Arabic calligraphy at Worcester Art Museum; I was the first to sign up. It was a pleasure to go back to my roots and learn how to write my mother tongue artistically.

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Wise Jellyfish

Each strand includs meaningful quotes translated into Arabic.

Weight of Words

In this turbulent time, I wanted to show contrasting values and at the
same time show the weight of these values, where the heaviest one carries the most significance from my point of view. Freedom/Slavery; Tyranny/Democracy; War/Peace; Equality/Bias; Universal Love/Hatred

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Wish I Were A Bamboo

"If only I were like the bamboo tree, free of attachments. We cut off a part of its stalk and plant it, without roots, in any land. It does not take the stalk long to grow new roots. They grow again in a new land without a past, without a memory. It does not care about the different names people call it: kawayan in the Philippines, khayzaran in Kuwait or bamboo in other places."