The Line in Constant Motion

Artist Bio

In my work, I explore the power and symbolism of water within Islam and the tradition of Islamic art, especially Islamic calligraphy. These foundations guide me toward a practice that weaves matter, ritual, and memory together.

Rather than seeking control and precision, I open myself to surrender and unpredictability. I work with tools such as spatulas, ceramic instruments, coarse brushes, and Japanese horsehair brushes, each carrying its own memory and language. They invite me to listen rather than to master, leaving traces that are rhythmic, fragmented, flowing, or broken.

Ink becomes more than a medium; it is a companion. Like water, it resists full control, dripping and meandering, sometimes chaotic. Writing becomes revelation rather than projection, a movement from “What do I want to write?” to “What wants to be written?”

Water continually returns as both motif and metaphor. Just as in the purification rituals of wudu and ghusl it marks the passage from the physical to the spiritual, in my work it opens a space where both dimensions meet.

Traces of Breath

This piece explores water as memory, movement, and ritual. Incorporating graffiti spray as an instrument within my practice, the work shapes forms that retain the grainy texture of pigment. The red calligraphic forms of the Arabic alphabet preserve the grainy texture of spray pigments, breathing and ephemeral, echoing the Quran verse “He created man from sounding clay like pottery” (Surah Ar-Rahman, 55:14).

The lines flow like streams of water: purifying, breathing, always in motion. In the Islamic rituals of purification: water marks a passage from the physical to the spiritual, from the temporal to the eternal. In the same way, this work opens a ritual space where visible and invisible layers meet, where breath and dust form a prayer.

Translating graffiti into textile recalls the shroud that envelops the body after death. Where graffiti is fleeting, the carpet invites presence, touch, and contemplation. Its fibers anchor what threatened to vanish, offering a new dimension of stillness. The work breathes the cycle of origin and return: appearing and dissolving, holding and releasing.

The Memory of Waves

This work explores water as memory, movement, and ritual. Emerging from calligraphic brushstrokes made with Japanese horsehair brushes, the gesture transforms from ink on paper to digital pixels, and finally into textile. Suspended in space, the cloth embodies a wave reaching a new shore each time: from matter to light, from action to memory.

The blue lines flow like streams of water, breathing and ephemeral, carrying the tension between the temporal and the eternal. Just as water in the Islamic rituals serves as a threshold to purity and spiritual presence, this cloth creates a ritual space where bodily and spiritual dimensions meet.

The fabric reveals a duality: the front displays a harmonious, fluid pattern, while the back exposes a chaotic web of threads. This contrast underscores the essence of purification: the visible body renewed and refreshed, while the hidden inner world holds unrest and imperfection. Washing here does not erase chaos but opens a passage where the soul can reorient and reconnect.