like Hiba and Hanane is included in Contemporary Muslim At of North Carolina. Pictured below is “The Invitation” (2023). With over 750 in person and online participants from the Triangle Muslim community, Ummah’s first community interactive art project asked for participants to make the intention to be “Invited” to perform the Holy pilgrimages, Hajj and Umrah. This traveling canvas visited several mosques and Muslim spaces, where participants inserted pins around the Ka’bah which represented themselves and their loved ones. While pinning their dot, they did Du’a for Allah to call them on this spiritually intense and challenging journey, the goal of which is cleansing of the heart and purification of the soul. The end result was a canvas symbolic of a community’s collective anticipation, yearning, and hope to be Invited.
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Painting After Art is Dead 