Look & Look again
Calligraphy (1964)
Siah Armajani
I looked at it initially and it reminded me of the art is history piece of art I had brought into class. The type of art is called microgrpahy, where pieces of texts are placed in positions to create an image of some sort. The pieces of text in this piece of art are verses of poems written in Arabic. Within the calligraphy I hadn’t noticed any image, all I saw were Arabic words almost mashed together with no specific order or pattern. When we were told that the picture was created from Arabic letters I was surprised not to recognize the letters.
