Scope and Contents This is one of a suite of 21 prints done by Koraichi based upon fragments of a poem by the Palestinian activist poet, Mahmoud Darwish. Koraichi wrote the poems and drew signs, symbols and ideograms onto zinc plates that were then printed with black ink except for small sectors of the prints with red ink. Several of the prints were exhibited in "Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s - 1980s, a show that the Sackners saw at Miami Art Museum in 2000. A critical essay by Abdul Kebir Khatibi in the book with the same title (also held by the Sackner Archive) describes this project. He states that the poetry undergoes two transformations: a second writing of writing by Koraichi that is joined by the monogram (pictogram) with its Chinese and/or Japanese look. The calligraphy, which is inspired by the Kufti style regains the geometry of imaginary the articulation of its tracery, the association and dissociation of its designs, the rhythm and power of its lines. Calligraphy...

Scope and Contents This is one of a suite of 21 prints done by Koraichi based upon fragments of a poem by the Palestinian activist poet, Mahmoud Darwish. Koraichi wrote the poems and drew signs, symbols and ideograms onto zinc plates that were then printed with black ink except for small sectors of the prints with red ink. Several of the prints were exhibited in "Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950 s - 1980s, a show that the Sackners saw at Miami Art Museum in 2000. A critical essay by Abdul Kebir Khatibi in the book with the same title (also held by the Sackner Archive) describes this project. He states that the poetry undergoes two transformations: a second writing of writing by Koraichi that is joined by the monogram (pictogram) with its Chinese and/or Japanese look. The calligraphy, which is inspired by the Kufti style regains the geometry of imaginary the articulation of its tracery, the association and dissociation of its designs, the rhythm and power of its lines. Calligraphy...

Scope and Contents This is one of a suite of 21 prints done by Koraichi based upon fragments of a poem by the Palestinian activist poet, Mahmoud Darwish. Koraichi wrote the poems and drew signs, symbols and ideograms onto zinc plates that were then printed with black ink except for small sectors of the prints with red ink. Several of the prints were exhibited in "Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s - 1980s, a show that the Sackners saw at Miami Art Museum in 2000. A critical essay by Abdul Kebir Khatibi in the book with the same title (also held by the Sackner Archive) describes this project. He states that the poetry undergoes two transformations: a second writing of writing by Koraichi that is joined by the monogram (pictogram) with its Chinese and/or Japanese look. The calligraphy, which is inspired by the Kufti style regains the geometry of imaginary, the articulation of its tracery, the association and dissociation of its designs, the rhythm and power of its lines. Calligraphy...

Scope and Contents This is one of a suite of 21 prints done by Koraichi based upon fragments of a poem by the Palestinian activist poet, Mahmoud Darwish. Koraichi wrote the poems and drew signs, symbols and ideograms onto zinc plates that were then printed with black ink except for small sectors of the prints with red ink. Several of the prints were exhibited in "Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s - 1980s, a show that the Sackners saw at Miami Art Museum in 2000. A critical essay by Abdul Kebir Khatibi in the book with the same title (also held by the Sackner Archive) describes this project. He states that the poetry undergoes two transformations: a second writing of writing by Koraichi that is joined by the monogram (pictogram) with its Chinese and/or Japanese look. The calligraphy, which is inspired by the Kufti style regains the geometry of imaginary, the articulation of its tracery, the association and dissociation of its designs, the rhythm and power of its lines. Calligraphy...

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This work is based upon Sufi mysticism and deals with Judaism, Christianity and Islam. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.