Al-Nasiri Silkscreen Eid Card

Description:

Al-Nasiri’s holiday card would have been produced at a similar time as Dia al-Azzawi’s (shown elsewhere in the exhibit), albeit with a different color palette and resulting mood. Al-Nasiri employs a version of his trademark sin letter, but duplicates, rotates, and splits its toothed shape to spell “happy holiday” (ʿeid saʿid) in Arabic. The minimal, abstracted setting shows a diffusion of warm tones surrounding the characters. A result is that the undulating shape of the letter connects to themes of radiance and diffusion associated with the sun.

Attribution:

UC Berkeley Library collection

Date:

c. 1970s

Source:

Original from UC Berkeley Library collection