Kāra-Lāmah #16

Arabic calligraphy breaths life into words and images. It allows us to discover a sacred gesture, a moment of synchronization between mind and body.

This artwork is a tribute to the Arabic script. It's a generative version of a Kāra-Lāmah or 'Rough Draft'; a practice sheet where the calligrapher would practice her/his penmanship to perfect it but also to try different nibs of the qalam, or reed pen.

It uses glyphs from the Arabic (U+0600..U+06FF), Arabic Supplement (U+0750..U+077F) and Arabic Extended-A & B (U+08A0..U+08FF | U+0870..U+089F) Unicode blocks, the 'Scheherazade New' font and p5.js.