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United States
Painting, Watercolor on Paper
Size: 9.8 W x 7 H x 0.1 D in
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I am inspired by a chapter in the Book of Sufi Healing entitled, "The Soul of the Rose". In it, the writer recalls a story about the King Prophet Sulayman (Solomon) in which he was greeted by a medicinal plant who told him its name and its purpose. It spoke of it's essence which is its most healing form and purpose. It is the soul of the plant. In the Islamic conception of humanity, each person is like one of these plants - Allah/ God created each of us with a specific purpose in this world. Our job in this world is to express the truest nature of our soul. To be our most authentic self in order to make our best contribution to humanity. I chose to paint every work in the Fitra series in watercolor because this is a medium that I associate most with childhood artmaking. Every child expresses their fitra and for many of us we must remember our childhood self in order to connect to our most authentic being and remember our purpose. I want viewers to be reminded that they are an essential part of creation and their best contribution to this world is for them to live a life full of purpose. This Fitra: Eucalyptus (study) watercolor painting is accompanied by a signed Certificate of Authenticity and an Artist Reserved Rights and Transfer of Sale Agreement to be signed by the buyer and artist Nsenga Knight.
Painting:Watercolor on Paper
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:9.8 W x 7 H x 0.1 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:No
Packaging:Ships Rolled in a Tube
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My paintings, drawings, prints, and collaborative social practice projects reference Islamic ritual and cosmology, Black history archives, and personal memoirs. My creative process is grounded in research and experimentation within abstract, documentary and conceptual art traditions. I was born in Brooklyn, NY to parents who immigrated to the US from the Caribbean and South America in the 1970’s as teenagers and converted from Christianity to Islam as young adults, raising me within their new faith and country. Their fluid and willful transitions between place, philosophies, and histories has developed my understanding of the visual world – its nuances and boundaries, and the need to resist, reevaluate, and push beyond its limits. Through the experience of looking at/ participating in my artwork, I am inviting my audiences to embrace new possibilities that challenge traditional boundaries of race, nationhood, and religion; and create wholly new constructions that broaden our collective imaginations. Nsenga Knight was born in 1981 in Brooklyn, New York. She currently lives and works in Cairo, Egypt and New York. Knight has been awarded with a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, a Foundation for Contemporary Arts grant, a Southern Constellations Fellowship, the Leeway Foundation Art and Change Grant, and Brooklyn Arts Council grants. She has held artist residencies at BRICworkspace in Brooklyn, NY, the Drawing Center in New York, Elsewhere Museum in Greensboro, North Carolina, the Galveston Artist Residency in Galveston, Texas, Brandywine Workshop in Philadelphia, Film/Video Arts Center in New York, and was a BCAT/ Rotunda Gallery Multimedia Artist in Resident in Brooklyn, NY.
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