In Constellation

Dimensions: 28" × 42" | 71.12 cm × 106.68 cm
Medium: Handmade watercolour paints on animal-free Fabriano archival paper
Year: 2025
Prints available

This piece explores the mathematical and symbolic meeting point between ninefold, tenfold, elevenfold, and twelvefold symmetries. The layout and colour palette invite the viewer to wander slowly through the pattern, engaging attentively with its structure. For experienced geometric analysts, the work also functions as a clear structural guide to the ruler-and-compass construction of the design.

Hammam Assammara

Dimensions: 20" × 28" | 50.80 cm × 71.12 cm
Medium: Handmade watercolour paints on handmade Indian wasli paper
Year: 2024
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This architectural miniature memorialises an ancient bathhouse in Gaza City destroyed by Israeli airstrike in December 2023. The hammam’s interior is shown in both a fully materialised and a dematerialising state, reflecting the interiority of remembering a place that no longer physically exists. The destruction of heritage architecture constitutes cultural erasure; by keeping knowledge of these structures alive, this work aims to contribute to the preservation of Palestinian history.

Mirror Passage

Dimensions: 19" × 24" | 48.26 cm × 60.96 cm
Medium: Handmade watercolour paints on animal-free Fabriano archival paper
Year: 2024

This piece presents two distinct orientations of a sixfold pattern unit, positioned and combined to create new shapes. The pattern unit passes through a series of algorithmic transitions, designed and executed by hand. The arrangement has a mirrored relationship along the vertical axis.

Compass Rose

Dimensions: 10" × 10" | 25.40 cm × 25.40 cm
Medium: Handmade watercolour paints on animal-free Fabriano archival paper
Year: 2023
Prints available

An eightfold pattern from a fountain floor in Cairo, this design incorporates two distinct eight-pointed stars. The interior star features a motif reminiscent of the compass rose used to indicate the cardinal directions in classical cartography. This motif, along with its containing star, is also commonly found in traditional quiltmaking designs across Europe and North America.

Qalawun

Dimensions: 12" × 13" | 30.48 cm × 33.02 cm
Medium: Handmade watercolour paints on handmade Indian wasli paper
Year: 2024

This composition celebrates a lesser known ceiling design from the Qalawun Mausoleum complex in Cairo, Egypt. It features multiple repeats of a tenfold star pattern from the Girih tiling system, cropped and adapted for the mausoleum ceiling in a distinctive and original manner. The colour scheme for this iteration evokes the original architectural inspiration.

Mafrouka

Dimensions: 10" × 10" | 25.40 cm × 25.40 cm
Medium: Handmade watercolour paints on animal-free Fabriano archival paper
Year: 2023
Prints available

The term Mafrouka comes from the technique of milling flour for use in baked desserts. It refers to a large group of patterns that incorporate tiled, chiral repeats, most commonly from the fourfold family. This mafrouka pattern is from the fountain floor of Bayt Al Kritliyyah in Cairo, structured around an eight-pointed star called a khatam (meaning seal).

The Bird and the Hourglass

Dimensions: 10" × 16" | 25.40 cm × 40.64 cm
Medium: Handmade watercolour paints on animal-free Fabriano archival paper
Year: 2023
Prints available

In this novel analysis of the tenfold star sequence from a fountain floor in Cairo, the pattern emerges from the grid with the proportions of the woven band built directly into its structure. This work continues an ongoing theme in my analyses of the Bayt Al Kritliyyah pattern series, exploring an underexamined yet fascinating geometric technique.

Isometric 15/12 Indigo and White

Dimensions: 11" × 14"  |  28 cm × 35.5 cm
Medium: Digital Print
Year: 2023
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This digital print is created using the pencil and ink foundation for the work "Isometric 15/12" and digitally rendered in Indigo and White.

The Trefoil and The Crown

Dimensions: 10" × 16" | 25.40 cm × 40.64 cm
Medium: Handmade watercolour paints on animal-free Fabriano archival paper
Year: 2023
Prints available

In this analysis of the twelvefold star sequence from a fountain floor in Cairo, the pattern emerges from the grid with the proportions of the woven band built directly into its structure. This pattern is rare in that the interstitial stars are twelvefold instead of the usual interstitial pentagrams, leaving a trefoil (three-leaves) space in between, which suggests the development of a crown-shaped cap to the rosette.

The Shield and The Drum

Dimensions: 10" × 10" | 25.40 cm × 25.40 cm
Medium: Handmade watercolour paints on animal-free Fabriano archival paper
Year: 2023
Prints available

This analysis is based on a pattern from the central area of the fountain floor at Bayt Al Kritliyyah in Cairo. Building upon a geometric methodology pioneered by Alan Adams, the work develops his approach for these patterns, but notably incorporates the widths of the woven bands directly into the construction mathematics.

Cairo To Yazd

Dimensions: 39.76" × 24.02" | 101 cm × 61 cm
Medium: Watercolour on Fabriano archival paper under anti-glare UV preservation glass
Year: 2022
Prints available

This work juxtaposes a Mamluk tenfold pattern with Yazd’s pili gereh motif, united by interstitial fivefold and “kite” polygons. Painted in watercolour from Ontario and Iran, it reveals deep mathematical symmetry.

Harmonic Rectangles

Dimensions: 20.08" × 14.96" | 51 cm × 38 cm
Medium: Watercolour and white drafting pencil on indigo-dyed hemp paper under UV preservation glass
Year: 2022

Exploring harmonic rectangle derivation from circle divisions, this piece uses rich indigo hemp paper and precise pencil work. Each column demonstrates scaling rhythms inherent in polygon-based pattern constructions.

Moon Star Rose

Dimensions: 14.17" × 14.17" | 36 cm × 36 cm
Medium: Watercolour on handmade wasli paper under UV preservation glass
Year: 2022
Prints available

This composition explores a fourteen-pointed central star amid eleven- and nine-pointed motifs, inspired by Isfahan’s Jameh Mosque portico. Rendered in watercolour on handmade Indian wasli paper after an intricate symmetry analysis.

Isometric 15/12

Dimensions: 18.11" × 20.87" | 46 cm × 53 cm
Medium: Watercolour on archival paper under UV preservation glass
Year: 2022
Prints available

This fifteenfold/twelvefold rosette, derived from Cairo’s Louvre panel, is hand-painted in watercolour. Its geometry analyzed from David Wade’s archive, it reveals deep interlocking symmetry through precise construction.

Bayt Al Kritliyyah

Dimensions: 18.90" × 16.14" | 48 cm × 41 cm
Medium: Watercolour on animal-free archival paper under anti-glare UV preservation glass
Year: 2021
Prints available

Hand-made watercolour paints from Ontario on archival paper, framed under UV preservation glass. Inspired by tenfold and twelvefold mosaic patterns from Cairo’s Gayer Anderson Museum, this piece unites harmonic rectangles in perfect symmetry.

Mamluk Ceiling

Dimensions: 20.87" × 33.07" | 53 cm × 84 cm
Medium: Archival Giclée print under UV preservation glass
Year: 2021
Prints available

This pattern from Al Ashraf Barsaby’s western portico ceiling is recreated as an archival Giclée print. Its worn textures inspired this commission, now framed under UV glass from a private collection.

Magnolia

Dimensions: 20.08" × 14.17" | 51 cm × 36 cm
Medium: Pencil on sketchbook paper under UV preservation glass
Year: 2020

This design, carved into the yeso walls of the Alhambra palace, incorporates the Magnolia seedpod amid paradisal garden motifs. Executed in early lockdown with pencil on sketchbook paper.

Jewel of Al-Atterine

Dimensions: 19.69" × 19.69" | 50 cm × 50 cm
Medium: Archival Giclée print under UV preservation glass
Year: 2020
Prints available

Featuring Al-Atterine’s dual-level ten-pointed star pattern, this archival Giclée print captures both micro and macro symmetry. Celebrated in “Sufi Lines” and Adam Williamson’s “Profound Patterns,” it unites historic geometry with modern precision.

Alcazar Deconstructions

Dimensions: 9.84" × 20.08" | 25 cm × 51 cm
Medium: Colour prints on heavy card, framed in commercial frames
Year: 2020
Prints available

This triptych originates from on-site studies at Seville’s Royal Alcazar. Three prints trace iconic palatial patterns evolving from a mother circle to alicatado wall mosaics, showcasing Andalusian ceramic geometry.