Sacred Compound

Sacred Compound
40 x 40 cm
Hand embroidery, cotton thread, aida cloth

This embroidery was free-form and entirely improvised. It began by imagining the first structured forms that would have appeared from the Big Bang. It became a dreamscape full of archways and staircases that evolved into an artistic interpretation of an aerial view of Al Haram Al Sharif and Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. Finally, the work became a composition of the five elements of air, fire, wind, water and space.