Relief sculpture with a text in Arabic.
#Arabic readers. Can anyone read and translate this plaque? It's of a piece of sculpture copied from a design in a magazine.
Is it #Kufic script? It may refer to a lunar calendar month. I no longer have the original from 30 yrs ago, hence my question.
Rearranging 26 symbols to build universes.
#CholistanDesert #DerawarFort #Bahawalpur #PattanMinara #Shrine #Balochistan #Folklore #Kohl #kajal #Jinn #lore #Chaadar #Kufic #TheAlphabetstory #Alphabet #Creativity #Storytelling #Tales #Fiction #Imaginative #Genius #Uniquestory #Wordcraft #MindPen
Finished, tall calligraphic piece with a large Kufic letter in golden ochre and lines of texture-like words in indigo
The same seen in context (and scale) on the work table
And finally, though this was the first one in the series I designed:
Piece 6 of 6: Mathematics (ر for رياضيات )
Foraged earth pigments and indigo in gum tempera on paper, 75x180cm. #Kufic
Whew! Can't wait to see these framed and hung up in the space they were made for.
Photo of an exterior wall of the Mausoleum of Timur in Samarkand, with the flat-out wrong caption "The tiles spell out the numerous names of God."
No they don't you frickin' blogger. They spell Allah, Muhammad, Ahmad and one dodgy ambigram-ish that looks like it's meant to be 'abd (for "Muhammad 'abd Allah"). If you don't know, just refrain.
#kufic
Piece 2 of 6: Music (م for موسيقى)
Foraged earth pigments and indigo in gum tempera on paper, 75x75cm.
#kufic
BREAKING: We’re changing things up here and from today forward will be known as CALLIGRAPHY ALL DAY ALL NIGHT! Let’s all get together and share our love of this form of beautiful writing!!!
#spencerian #blackletter #pointedpen #copperplate #kufic #calligrasky #calligraphyalldayallnight
Kaf and nuun are used in a kufic style of Arabic caligraphy to write out the initials of my name.
This is my personal #logo, but redesigned in the #kufic style of #Arabic #calligraphy.
