Hafsa Murtaza, Movement of Prayer, 2024
Aquatint etchings on Somerset paper
22 in x 30 in
The etching and aquatint series manifests how arching and circular movements of prayer are emulated within nature, the built environment, Eastern and Western topographies, indoors, outdoors and in outer space. People and birds simultaneously circumambulate around the Kaaba in Mecca, towards which a man and the symbolic Canadian Killbear tree painted by the Group of Seven prostrate. Narrower plates depict a prayer mat laid out under the Killbear tree as if the tree were praying on it; the moon's phases in an arched form mirror the arched back of the prostrating man beneath it. I scraped and burnished the copper plates to emphasize movements flowing between the plates when seen in series.
Hafsa Murtaza, Movement of Prayer, 2024
Aquatint etchings with à la pouppée and rollover on Somerset paper
22 in x 30 in
Hafsa Murtaza, Movement of Prayer, 2024
Aquatint etchings on washi paper
Varied sizes
Hafsa Murtaza, Movement of Prayer (triptych), 2024
Aquatint etchings on Somerset
22 in x 15 in each
Movement of Prayer, proof prints