Iman Mahmud (Iraq)

Iman Mahmud 2010 - Nature is a powerful source of inspiration that invites to observe carefully and to meditate. For me, nature is an open book, and I try to decode the symbols in this book.

In my paintings, which I call wall pictures, I use Arabic characters and symbols on canvas. The texts are compositions of word fragments with mystical meaning, comparable with the continuous texts that were created with cylinder seals in Mesopotamia. The cylinder seal, containing circumferential inscriptions or motifs, showed a continuous band of repetitive images or texts when rolled on soft clay.
Structures and calligraphy provide unlimited creative possibilities. The art work lives from the magic of the symbols.