Majnun
Pieced woven tapestry, 6′ x 8′
Majnun is a series of large-scale textile works that explore the fragility and fluidity of identity in an age transformed by technology and artificial intelligence. Drawing from both digital and manual processes, each piece depicts fragmented, semi-abstract human forms caught between presence and disappearance—figures that question what remains of the self once the frameworks that define us begin to dissolve.
Rather than portraits, these works are visual meditations on perception and being. Layered textures, partial silhouettes, and calligraphic gestures echo how the mind constructs reality from fragments—always selective, always incomplete. What emerges are not stable subjects, but apparitions in flux, mirroring the instability of consciousness itself.
Inspired by the legendary lover Majnun—whose name means “possessed” or “mad”—the series reinterprets his myth as a metaphor for the irreducible self: elusive, untamed, and uncontainable by ideology or data. Here, form becomes a field of uncertainty, inviting viewers to see ambiguity not as confusion, but as fidelity to the complexity of existence.
At its core, Majnun resists the logic of reduction that defines our technological age. It defends mystery as an essential human quality—a reminder that identity cannot be coded, categorized, or entirely known. We are, like Majnun himself, both fragment and whole, momentary and infinite—woven into a vast and living tapestry of being.