Inspired by Whirling Dervishes who, through their continuous motion, are searching for beauty and liberation from the body, Hadieh Shafie created the series ‘Ketab’ consisting of thousands of tightly wrapped Farsi scrolls packed together to create concentric motifs. Each piece is simultaneously aesthetically engaging and thought-provoking as the brightly colored façade gives way to numerous hidden love messages handwritten onto each scroll. Shafie explains: ‘In the end the closed circular form of each scroll is a circular book that cannot be opened. The turning of the text around a central core is continuous; it turns and turns in search of meaning, transcendence and infinity.’ |
