JEDDAH SERIES
The Jeddah Series is a series of twenty works using ink on paper. It was created during the 2010-2011 academic year, when I lived and worked in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, where I taught graphic design within the Visual Communication Department at Dar Al Hekma College (it is now a university). It was exhibited throughout the United States.
The project began with a four-question questionnaire about work, home and family, requiring the respondent to hand-write their answers in English and in their native tongue. Though the series is about human migration, it is also about storytelling. Inspired by Islamic geometric design, the series incorporates handwriting in two languages, often two alphabets, merging east and west. It depicts a form of portraiture within a non-figurative art, using calligraphy as form blending different cultures and languages into one visual art form. It is intended to add another layer of humanity and meaning to the beauty of Islamic geometric design, while also seeing a place and the people who live there, in a new, more humanistic, way.
The Jeddah Series is a series of twenty works using ink on paper. It was created during the 2010-2011 academic year, when I lived and worked in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, where I taught graphic design within the Visual Communication Department at Dar Al Hekma College (it is now a university). It was exhibited throughout the United States.
The project began with a four-question questionnaire about work, home and family, requiring the respondent to hand-write their answers in English and in their native tongue. Though the series is about human migration, it is also about storytelling. Inspired by Islamic geometric design, the series incorporates handwriting in two languages, often two alphabets, merging east and west. It depicts a form of portraiture within a non-figurative art, using calligraphy as form blending different cultures and languages into one visual art form. It is intended to add another layer of humanity and meaning to the beauty of Islamic geometric design, while also seeing a place and the people who live there, in a new, more humanistic, way.