Canvas Archival Digital Prints on Canvas
Assana		Effie
Marie	Top	Urn

These are images of my braided fabric sculptures rewoven within geometric patterns unique to the Arab world. This union expresses both the historical roots of the braided rugs I re-use and the mathematical precision -another part of the Arabian legacy to the world- necessary for the creation of the sculptures themselves.

These patterns are often used as interior screens to divide spaces. They are used here to reweave the image of my sculptures along with the entire contents of my studio. The floors, tables, walls and the sculptures themselves become a very graphic, flattened image but when the eye recognizes the depth of the image, suddenly one realizes they are looking through a visual opening stretching back in time and into a three dimensional space.

These images are printed on canvas using archival inks protected with a high gloss UV light absorbing varnish. The canvas is mounted dead flat onto Baltic Birch plywood and razor cut at the edges of the frame exposing the thinness of the canvas and absolute flatness of the picture plane. This technique further flattens the image while simultaneously enhancing its visual depth. As a result, rather than ending at its edge, the pattern appears to be cut from a fabric of infinite dimensions.