Workshop attendees learnt the basics of creating geometric Islamic designs by cutting paper into squares and circles that may be layered and interlaced.

In this workshop, participants learnt the fundamentals of geometric Islamic patterns using paper-cutting techniques to create a combination of repeated squares and circles, which may be overlapped and intertwined. Outlining designs and shapes created empty spaces that made up the depth of the arrangements. This workshop introduced participants to the essential elements of Islamic architecture.

Ages: 12+

About the Artist

Debjani is a papercut artist based in Muscat and exhibits her intricate papercut creations extensively in art galleries in UAE, Oman, and India. She is a visual storyteller driven by narratives and impulses found within legend and folklore. Prompted by curiosity, she explores what could lay beneath the surface and the unseen. Only a ghost of the original version, vaguely familiar yet unrecognisable, remains in her interpretation of each epic tale. As she gives focus to peripheral characters and transient moments, her interventions become contemporary re-imaginings where the ambiguous, unreliable, skewed and incomplete are conveyed through a subverted, emblematic language.