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WINDOWS ON THE WORLD: View Two
Digital painting
Perspective Two: Can you find?
• The Crescent Moon, the symbol of Islam
• Women in burkas
• Islamic prayers of love and devotion
• The two darkened towers crumbling from the top down in smoke and fire
• The words “Muhammad Spoke”
• Icons and symbols of Middle-Eastern culture and much more...
The work, a response to 9/11 from an artist who worked within the World
Trade Center Complex for over ten years, invites us to examine religious
and cultural icons in image and word from two perspectives, Christian and
Islamic—in an attempt to find commonality at that juncture where lightness
and darkness meet; an attempt to make beauty out of pain . . . a longing
for understanding, a starting point for questions.
* Special thanks to Adnan and Ayla Onart, and Halil Imre
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