Name of artist: Hafsa Waseela Abbas
Country: UK
Hafsa is in field of cancer and as a hobby enjoys helping the community through her writing, art and events.
Name of Artpiece One: Palestinian bloodshed is not the answer
This Art piece presents the outline of Palestine in a Towqi Arabic calligraphy format. The colours used denotes the Palestinian flag: red, green, white an black.
Surrounding the map on one side is the name of one of the cities called Gaza and this is written in Thuluth script with a bleeding heart.
Palestine is also written in English calligraphy with the Palestinian Kuffiyeh scarf.
At the top of the map is a glowing bird that links the whole trial with a verse from the Quran that says in Naskh script:
"Don't Lose Hope In ALLAH's Mercy"
(ﻻ ﺗَﻘْﻨَﻄُﻮﺍ ﻣِﻦ ﺭَّﺣْﻤَﺔِ ﺍﻟﻠَّﻪِ)
Sura Al Zumr (The Groups) 39:53.
Surrounding the map on one side is the name of one of the cities called Gaza and this is written in Thuluth script with a bleeding heart.
Palestine is also written in English calligraphy with the Palestinian Kuffiyeh scarf.
At the top of the map is a glowing bird that links the whole trial with a verse from the Quran that says in Naskh script:
"Don't Lose Hope In ALLAH's Mercy"
(ﻻ ﺗَﻘْﻨَﻄُﻮﺍ ﻣِﻦ ﺭَّﺣْﻤَﺔِ ﺍﻟﻠَّﻪِ)
Sura Al Zumr (The Groups) 39:53.
Artpiece Two: The Palestinian Cultural jigsaw.
Each square piece presents the main cities and towns of Palestine in Kufic calligraphy script using the colours of the Palestinian flag: black, red, white and green.
On the second half of the art piece, Hafsa presents some of the Palestinian tatreez patterns after being inspired by the shape, content, form and meaning: single spear, partial Damask rose, cypress, moon of Ramallah, Garden rose or rose on the bud and the flower pot.
Palestine is written in bold black using the Thuluth script and is translated with English Calligraphy.
On the second half of the art piece, Hafsa presents some of the Palestinian tatreez patterns after being inspired by the shape, content, form and meaning: single spear, partial Damask rose, cypress, moon of Ramallah, Garden rose or rose on the bud and the flower pot.
Palestine is written in bold black using the Thuluth script and is translated with English Calligraphy.