Five times every day a quarter of the world faces Mecca to pray, no site on earth commands a greater focusing of human energies and thoughts. It is the site of the largest annual pilgrimage, the revered site of the birthplace of the prophet Muhammad and the place where the Quran was believed to have been revealed to Muhammad. Inside the great Mosque lies the Ka’bah, believed to have been built by Abraham and Ismael.
The dense and detailed imagery upon the surface of the work contains multiple views of Mecca during the Hajj, the surface pattern is that of the great ceiling in the Sunni Mosque, Sheik Lotfollah in Isfahan, Iran, widely considered one of the most beautiful works of Islamic art. The radiating pattern of which serves as a vehicle for transcendence and the contemplation of eternity that the interlocking patterns and forms of Islamic art create.
Below the surface layer are the shadowy forms of those at prayer during the Hajj, centered in circular form around the Ka’bah.
