A Metaphor for Peace from Islamic Art

A fresh metaphor for peace between Israel and the Islamic world

I made these photographs of counter-patterns in Islamic rugs into digital prints on canvas and had them hang on the museum walls alongside the actual rugs in my aesthetic peace exhibition in Prague.

Counter-patterns are woven into Islamic rugs to demonstrate that human hands cannot create perfect symmetry. Religious Muslim women acknowledge that only Allah creates perfection by purposefully introducing counter-patterns into their designs.

Peace will come when the Islamic world sees tiny Israel in its midst as the necessary counter-pattern in the huge Islamic rug that streches from the Atlantic Ocean to the borders of India.

The Islamic world needs Israel to realize its own aesthetic values