Rehla

A holy space to me is the journey, one where I can explore confidently, even if lost, which inspired the name of this piece to be the Arabic word رحلة “Rehla” - That feeling is translated into a spatial experience, frozen in time. Here, I’m going down a path, with interesting and sometimes unexpected encounters, with my destination peaking through. This piece is part of a collection which abstracts an internal journey of ideating and looking within for inspiration, the explorations of those ideas, and reaching my destination. It pulls from the idea of holiness that the overarching Milk & Honey theme inspires, and my recent travels to some of Gaudí’s marvels; who described the straight line as belonging to men, and the curved one to the divine. I visualize that journey of art-making into a series of colors, textures and shapes. This manifests itself into soft hues of pinks and whites, natural textures like stone, sand and water, and curvilinear, organic forms.