In times of conflict, returning to the warrior figures of Persian miniature felt inevitable and somehow as a necessity.
This body of work fuses two traditions: the calligram, where letterforms construct the bodies of figures and animals, and Persian miniature, with its gold botanical grounds and epic narratives. The figures — riders, warriors, creatures in motion — are built entirely from Crazy Kufic calligraphy. Abstract by nature, figurative by intention. The letter becomes muscle, joint, momentum.
The gold arabesques behind them are not passive decoration. They are the world continuing its beauty indifferently while violence unfolds in front of it. The garden doesn't stop for the human clash over power.
The verses floating above the figures occupy a different register, ultimately the poem and the battle share the same surface

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