{"id":6,"date":"2014-03-23T21:06:06","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T01:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fvafa\/?p=6"},"modified":"2014-03-23T21:06:06","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T01:06:06","slug":"calligraphy-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fvafa\/2014\/03\/23\/calligraphy-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Calligraphy Project"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For my design, I chose to represent Allah through the medium of traditional calligraphy.\u00a0 I elongated the letters and shaped them so that in the abstract sense, they resemble a vase containing flowers, which remind us of life and beauty.\u00a0 The flowers, growing upward from the ground and seemingly out of nothing, reference the \u201cClot\u201d verse in the Qur\u2019an, where it states that humans were created from a clot of dust.\u00a0 The asymmetry of my design makes it unique, which is a reflection of God\u2019s uniqueness.<\/p>\n

I also decided to incorporate extra calligraphy.\u00a0 On the alif, I wrote the first verse of Persian poet Saadi\u2019s Golestan<\/em> in Farsi.\u00a0 Since golestan<\/em> in Farsi means a garden, it again references the flower theme explained above. \u00a0\u00a0I chose poetry as a medium because it is concise and simple yet very deep in meaning.\u00a0 There is a lot of power contained in a few words of poetry.\u00a0 That is what I think about when I think about Allah.\u00a0 The word itself is very short, written very simply, yet it is very powerful.\u00a0 In my portrayal of Allah, I hoped to convey this same duality of simplicity and complexity through the medium of poetry.<\/p>\n

I chose the Golestan<\/em> verse because it is dedicated to God.\u00a0 In the verse, Saadi describes why we should be thankful to God.\u00a0 For each breath, we should be thankful for two reasons.\u00a0 The first reason is that by inhaling, we continue to live.\u00a0 The second reason is that when we exhale, the air, having passed through our body, has invigorated and nourished us.\u00a0 Again, this verse references the flower theme, and thus one of the many roles of Allah as the Creator and Nurturer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For my design, I chose to represent Allah through the medium of traditional calligraphy.\u00a0 I elongated the letters and shaped them so that in the abstract sense, they resemble a vase containing flowers, which remind us of life and beauty.\u00a0 The flowers, growing upward from the ground and seemingly out of nothing, reference the \u201cClot\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6337,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fvafa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fvafa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fvafa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fvafa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6337"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fvafa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fvafa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fvafa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fvafa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fvafa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fvafa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}