Project Description

In Aisha Khalid’s Pattern to Follow series, the artist devises a contemporary approach
to painting classical Islamic geometric patterns. Khalid manipulates the solid spaces
to delve into the endless possibilities that these patterns offer. The artist also accords
geometry a kind of spirituality with her belief that geometry and mathematics are a
form of «divine knowledge». Her patterned forms also allude to the dual nature of
the universe and solar system, which she describes as simultaneously abstract and
very real.

April 2011