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Wings (after Attar) is a series of five textile works derived from the birds in Farid al-Din Attar’s Conference of the Birds. Each piece isolates a single wing, removing the body, the plumage and the narrative identity of the bird. What remains is not a fragment of anatomy, but the minimal unit through which flight still persists.

Detached from the animal, the wing no longer illustrates a creature in motion. It becomes an idea of flight held in suspension—a direction rather than a figure, an impulse rather than a character. The work asks what flying means when nothing leaves the ground: how movement can appear as a state rather than a story.

Each wing is constructed from layered canvas altered through gradual pigment processes, forming stratified surfaces where colour and opacity accumulate. This material layering introduces time, erosion and transformation, as if the wing were not an object but the trace of a passage.

Rather than floating freely, every wing is held in tension by two cords fixed to sandbags. This structure is not symbolic restraint but a physical framework: a visible balance between gravity and orientation. The cords draw lines of force; the sand introduces weight; the wing becomes a sail rather than an organ—a surface capable of receiving direction without moving.

Seen independently, each piece stands as a self-contained state of suspension. Together, the five wings form a dispersed vocabulary of flight—not a cycle of characters, but five orientations, five partial vectors that never resolve into a single image. In this series, the fragment is not what remains after something has been removed, but what allows meaning to begin.

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