Qalbin Salim / Nor Aniswati Awang Lah ... [et al.]

The artwork is inspired from sacred art; Malay-Islamic traditional artisan which is support the spiritual life of those it surrounds, to instill a way of perceiving the world and the subtle realities behind it. Something look nice and attract human is not because of its physical look, but an electromagnetic energy produce by a certain geometric scale an proportion composition based on how Allah design It’s creatures.
It is an abstract ornamentation by combining a horizontal square with a diagonal one produces an eight-pointed star (top right opposite). Like the double triangle, this double square is known as the seal (khatam in Arabic) of Solomon, for legends vary, and is starting point of a vast family of patterns. Repeating them in each square makes the fundamental pattern of stars and crosses opposite. Its unite and multiplicity but harmony in central, which is symbolised that life should considering ‘give and take’ to live harmoniously.
This pattern can also be seen as a tiling of smaller diagonal squares, half of which expand and the other half of which contract. For this reason it has, in recent times, been referred to as The Breath of The Compassionate, a name referring of the Great Master Ibn al-’Arabi which expound the divine Breath as the basis of creation, liberating the possibilities of four elements; Fire, Air, Water and Earth, should be constant and recycle, perhaps avoiding stagnant.