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Based on the repetition of the spiritual words of the Sufi mystic and poet Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, the large drawing was handwritten in Arabic over a period of five-to-six months in total and was inscribed in dark Red Ink to match the color of the apartment’s Roche Bobois’s Bubble sofa. With a partial abstract figure cutting through the upper left corner of the drawing, acting like an oculus of light and designed to be adjacent to the actual source of light in the room, the Arabic inscriptions wrap around the oculus inflating the imaginary volume of light through a calculated and precise change in line thickness: creating an almost seamless gradation in color and a consequent impression of spatial depth. Inspired by the legacy of calligraphic epigraphs around the world, the drawing with its densely contoured reds is meant to evoke warm and serene spatial sensation around its architectural oculus.
Handwritten Inscriptions VI is part of a larger line of ink inscriptions art that represents an exploration of the surface space in a manner that veers between constrains of idealized geometrical orders and the beauty of the subtle gestures of imperfection as they emerge from the manual, handwriting process. While these drawings are also intentionally filled with such well-curated poetic content and extracts from the Arabic literature, the words still merely serve as repeated textural grains for the intricate fabric-like surfaces.