A GLOBAL PHENOMENON
PLACED PERSPECTIVE AND PERCEPTION
A LYRICAL NARRATIVE
FORMAL GEOGRAPHIES
CLOAK OF IGNORANCE
PUSHED AND PULLED
PROJECTION IN PATTERN
REIGN OF TERROR
A GLOBAL PHENOMENONAs you read the butterfly map,There are over lapping layers of information that you can extract.For Islam is a religious practice,With a following that reaches a global status.Its people stem from many world cultures,With an evolution of religious identities that have ruptured.For there are many draped faces neatly pinched into place,That construct a mask trimmed and cropped for a particular homeostasis. Yet bellow the mask their lies a metaphorical cyclical symbol of the religious faith,Which is the seed from which different interpretations of moral grace can be traced.And at the core of its central and single star,Asks its people to see it as a guiding star.*Conceptual Interpretation of Burqa in Oman Paper and Pencil. 14” x 22”
PLACED PERSPECTIVE AND PERCEPTIONWhat does the West often think of Master Bruce, He is the Dark Knight who seeks always honest ideals and truce. And what do we think of a veiled woman’s cause, That her practice is dangerous and inherently awed. How convenient it is for the commoner in the West, To always find a way to define what veiled definition which fits best. For those who are masked can be villain, victor or victim. But these claims always follow a particular dictum. What we must remember in interpretations that are just or unjust, That the lack of facial features require us to develop unseen references to trust. For in either case an individual’s features are no longer revealed, And his or her physical and human features are purposefully concealed. So we are left with a fragmented body, That forces us to interpret oddly. So to the women that are perceived as bereft of a community, Why is their vision vulnerable to social anomie.*Batman Begins: Dir. Christopher Nolan / Abu-Lughod, Lila. “Do Muslim Women really need Saving?”. “Conceptual interpretation of the Burqa in UAE. Paper and Pencil. 14” x 22”
A LYRICAL NARRATIVEAs with most religious traditions preceding the printing press,The beginnings of Islam was a lyrical narrative presented to its guests. In the darkness of the night people gathered around a fire, Where a moral and social message was told, and at times the west misconstrues as a satire.But what we forget with the prose of religious lines, Its that the metaphorical stories were sung to seep deep within the memories of our minds. But narratives as such exist within the realm of creative social practice, And the room left for interpretation allows ears to hold varying emphasis on chosen aspects. As these stories are developed to one’s own fruition, These muffled ideas are in turn translated into tradition, Which set in motion diverging trends of narrative omission. Where the trap of essentializing brings conflict between these different conditions. And as the Koran took place in the seventh century within a human setting, A collaged cultural codex was combined, to help its followers from forgetting.For it was only after Muhammad’s death, That their in turn began a new religious practice, to present him with remembrance and respect.*Cook, Michael, The Koran, a Very Short Introduction. “Conceptual Interpretation of the Hijab in Turkey.” Paper on Pencil 14” x 22”
FORMAL GEOGRAPHIESThe veil’s form follows different enveloping rules, which asks the individual to interpret the placement of each fold through the means with which the individual may choose. And as anthropologists perfectly know well, The relations between dress and one’s social cell. For individuals often wear an appropriate form of dress, That stems from the communities that they intern address. In Islam there exists scarves from the Hijab to the Burqa and the Chador, Each of these name only few of the garments that the religion deplores. But what is important is the meaning of their cultural, social, and geographic origin cannot be ignored, For within these contexts the formal fabric contains a social meaning which can be misinterpreted as implored. Just as we can understand the protective purpose of the Japanese Furoshiki’s folds. We can become sensitive to the Bedouin’s black head cloths that are worn in respect for the old. These are all logics of construction steaming from original geographies, That tell stories beyond what they eye can see. *”Conceptual Interpretations of Modern-Style Hijab,” Paper and Pencil. 14”x 21”
CLOAK OF IGNORANCESo we must dissect a form which has been forbidden ourselves from understanding at a greater degree, Because of social norms that veil the our instincts for inquiry. Just as Da Vinici sought to disobey religious authority, He stole and dissected human bodies with inquisitive fiery. Leonardo’s rules transformed thoughts and practices previously punished, By men held in great reverence for their inexperienced judgments. As he proceeded step by step to gather experiences within his mind. Leonardo founded critical and constructive methods of modern times, First, he believed we experienced of the world around us through our senses, Which was the starting point for our social consensus. This was followed by reason and contemplation. That surrounds our senses to develop external definitions. He believed these laws could be laid in mathematical sequence, which could in tern be tested and verified through logical experiment and experience. These were the methods by which he sought to verify truth, That freed him from an ancient system thought that he had sensed to be quite brute. We must be brave enough to dare what others may perceive as wrong, To find the objective answers that lay hidden all along. So as you begin to reveal the underlying performance, These practices unshackle you from a cloak of ignorance.*Vinci, Leonardo Da, Irma A. Richter, Thereza Wells, and Leonardo. Leonardo Da Vinci Notebooks. *Conceptual interpretation of the Hijab in Indonesia
PUSHED AND PULLEDWhile policies are regularly organized around political interest, The issue of simple and plain experience is the true mistress. As ruled information is provided for you to draw, There is a censorship series that is conducted by these underlying laws. For the perspectival rules which we are already trust, Do not address every horizontal and vertical detail to an in nite point that is truly just. Is it possible therefore that the orders of the perspective, Can be challenged to discover new directives? Now imagine as these lines no longer exist within the frame of the perpendicular, And we find ways to discover forms that are in fact quite peculiar. Maybe this would allow us to develop new perceptions beyond our minds, And utilize materials with efficiency and coherence beyond our time. For if we were to make visible the perspectival hinge, Common forms of anxiety imposing representation may no longer make us cringe. For as we acknowledge the faults in our tools of representation, It may tectonically transform our conception through this realization. These rules developed therefore distorted perceptions of reality at best, Dividing cones of vision from the rest.Architectural Representation and the Perspective Hinge: Alberto-Perez-Gomez + Louise Pelletier +Three Ecologies: Felix Guattari.* Conceptual Interpretation of the Niqab in UAE. Paper and Pencil. 14”x22”
PROJECTION IN PATTERNThe way we display information defines how we are choice architects, For we have responsibility in organizing specific contexts. These conditions in turn influence intimate decisions,Which can be interpreted into certain visions. Therefore in an honest struggle with libertarian paternalism, How can we balance different beliefs when fear reigns between organisms?You see in World War II when the Germans bombarded London with missiles, London newspapers published maps displaying the landing of these powerful whistles. Depending on how the maps drew lines to define the collisions, People of London expressed concerns of these projected patterns of bombs landing with precision. But in reality the Germans were like all the rest, As they aimed their bombs and hoped for the best. Yet we do not subject our perceptions to such rigorous analysis, Which intern instills a fear that brings our inquisitive minds to paralysis. A projected fear therefore bleeds into a confusion of thought, Which progressively infects our brains to slowly rot. So we must attempt to outline which is the projected fear that describes the conversation today, And trace the lines of where these poisonous patterns have been launched to lay. For maybe we can make an evolutionary leap, As the coincidence of different temporalities finally meet. For as we come to cross and converge at l’elan vital,We can develop relationships that are in fact amicable. *Nudge: Richard H. Thaler. Cass R. Sunstein + Creative Evolution: Henri Bergson*Conceptual Interpretation of Hijab in Yemen, Paper and Pencil. 14” x 22”
REIGN OF TERRORAs the West has cultivated the War on Terror,One of the subjects skewed was that of “women of cover.”In Afghanistan the subjected had been largely dressed, To represent falsified versions of a society plagued with unrest. The Bush administration claimed military gains, And successfully “freed” Afghani women of their many religious pains.But in neglecting the history of development of the repressive regimes, And focusing simply of the “culture” of religious themes. The administration successfully mislead questions of global interconnections, That worked to artificially divide the world into separate spherical dimensions. The slurred statements of “the-taliban-and-the-terrorists,” Implies imposed ideas of civil unrest. But if you listen closely you hear the haunting resonances of retrograde colonial rule, As women as used in conflicts within foreign policy to justify thoughts within a controlled school. Why is it the West can blindly believe in “white men saving brown men from brown men,” And nod reassured without questioning violence and disruption that may be led. For we forget that the Burqa are also “mobile homes,” That symbolizes a women’s modesty should she choose to roam. So we must be wary the direction in which political bed flows, And not get carried by the current confusion between governments and foes. And look up the river to the provenances of campaigns, Which reveal the false face that they feverishly try to maintain.*Conceptual interpretation of Burq in Afghanistan. Paper ob Pencil 14” x 22”
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