By Mohammad Almajedi
The Dome of peace is the name I have chosen for my artwork. I chose this name since I
drew a Dome and under it the word Peace in Arabic and English.The Idea of calling it The Dome of peace came to me from The Shrine of Dome of the rock.
My
idea is basically to write سلام (salaam) in the Kufic calligraphy and
above it the word peace. But peace will be written in a way that is similar to
the style of the Kufic calligraphy.
I got
influenced to write peace in a similar way to Kufic Calligraphy by the artist
Julien Breton. Since the Breton’s style is writing English letters in the form
of Arabic calligraphy. So I wrote سلام in a Kufic calligraphy and peace in a
similar shape.
I specifically
chose the word سلام and peace because they have the same
meaning and at the same time they both represent Islam.
The Dome above
the two words Symbolizes Islam.
The gold color
for the dome was chosen for 2 reasons.
| 1st reason is that I wanted to give my artwork something
related to the Islamic history and I found the dome of the rock a good choice.
| The 2nd reason is that in Islam the gold color it
paradise and by that I meant to show that the path to paradise is Islam.
As Edgar Degas
said “Art is not what you see, but what you make others see”.
In conclusion,
I have tried to translate my opinions and thoughts of Islam into art with my
humble abilities. And I hope that I made people see what I see.
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