Tag: monoprint
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جنگ • jang
Jang / War Book, artist’s book, flag book structure, bookcloth for cover is made with repurposed embroidered (Khamak dozi) Afghan shirt, pages are made with solar plate etchings of photographs appropriated from New York Times reporting on the War on Terror, 15 x 8 inches (closed), 15 x 23 inches (open), January 2021
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Gates series
“Gates” is a series of three monoprints drawing on Muradi’s poem of the same name, which explores themes of immigration and identity. The prints are rendered in a style reminiscent of classical illuminated manuscripts in Persian. The lines play with the Farsi/Dari diacritical marks “zabar,” [above] “zeyr,” [below] and “peysh,” [before] which denote short vowel sounds…
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Salaam Alaikum series
“Salaam Alaikum” is a series of monoprints drawing lines from Muradi’s eponymous poem, which is concerned with how daily greetings take on new tenor in times of war. Here, greetings in Dari are layered with transliterations in English. Lines from the poem are in conversation with the meaning of the greetings. For example, “manda nabasheyn”…