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Edwards , Holly, ph.D. Islamic Art, Professor
of Art History Williams College, publication, In the world of Islam, Arabic script can be both word and image. Sometimes, it can be read easily from right to left, with one letter flowing rhythmically into the next. Elsewhere, the letters may be entwined and elaborated into elegant but illegible patterns. Whether plain or obscure, however, the script evokes the sacred, for it was used, centuries ago, to record the revelations of God. Sally Chandler taps that implicitly sacred character when she combines the script with vividly painted beetles. In the beginning was the Word, she seems to say, and then the world emerged joyfully as its echo. Looking at her paintings, we come a little closer to the sacred that exists all around us. |
