Dissolving فناء – screen print

Fanā’ فناء is the Sufi concept of annihilation or dissolution (of the ego) that is also known as “death before dying”.

While making studies for this piece, I realized that if I stripped the letters down to their simplest possible expression, each one was exactly half the one preceding it, so that the word acts itself out. This became the basis of my design, which both rotates like a vortex and is “dissolved” into black. Only metallic silver ink is used, applied with increasing transparency.

Details:

• Silkscreen print onTiziano paper 160 gsm.

• 44x44cm, posted in a tube.

• Signed and numbered out of 33.