From Life-Art to Hijab
Essay archived at web.archive.org
Artists in the Life-Art performance art movement of the early 1970s influenced me and radically changed my life. My questions about the boundaries between life and art resulted in an association, from 1993-2007, with a traditional Sufi-Islamic community, and during that time I aspired to learn the art of Qur’anic recitation.
The original pen and ink drawings presented online at Stretcher are a selection from a larger body of work that was created while I was trying to memorize the Qur’an. The drawings were like prayers or meditations because, in order to memorize it, I would repeatedly recite the Qur’anic verse as I wrote it.
Essay archived at web.archive.org
Artists in the Life-Art performance art movement of the early 1970s influenced me and radically changed my life. My questions about the boundaries between life and art resulted in an association, from 1993-2007, with a traditional Sufi-Islamic community, and during that time I aspired to learn the art of Qur’anic recitation.
The original pen and ink drawings presented online at Stretcher are a selection from a larger body of work that was created while I was trying to memorize the Qur’an. The drawings were like prayers or meditations because, in order to memorize it, I would repeatedly recite the Qur’anic verse as I wrote it.
