I started this piece during the winter break earlier this year. I didn't finish it at that time, but I recently just finished it last week. Before this piece, I pretty much haven't painted since my senior year in high school and now I'm a rising junior in college. I know, I know... Buuut now that I'm back at it, I'm like what the Moroccans say, "met-hawsha" lol. I stay up all night painting. I work at the circulation desk 9-3 most of the week and right after that, I'm at the confocal lab at RIT. So most of my days consist of me being out of the house pretty much from 8am-8pm on avg. So that leaves me with pretty much no time to do anything. But it's reasons like these that caused me to be away from painting, so I chose to sacrifice sleep over painting haha..maybe not the best idea in the long run, but it's fine for now...with coffee haha.
So the piece below is the one I started during the winter break. Its called, "Light at the end of the Tunnel". I got inspiration from a mosque in my local area called Masjid Ar-Rahman. Although I know what the different parts of the painting represent/ mean to me, I'll leave the interpretation up to the viewer.
The interesting thing about this mosque is that the building was originally built as a church. So although a lot of changes have been made since the building officially became a mosque about 10 years ago, a lot of it's original structural design remains. This includes the "rose window" at the center of the building which was the main inspiration for this painting.
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Rose window at Masjid Ar-Rahman
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| Exterior of Masjid Ar-Rahman |
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| Title: Light at the end of the Tunnel |
