Description
Where The Two Oceans Meet | 1997
Scriptorial palette:
“He has given freedom to the two great bodies of water, so that they might meet: (19)
[yet] between them is a barrier which they may not transgress. (20)
Which, then of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow? (21)”
Inspired by Surah 55 – Ar-Raḥmān (The Most Gracious), verses 19-21 of the Holy Qur’ān
Oil and watercolour on 638 gsm, 100% paper, 162 x 200cm
Ahmed Moustafa was commissioned to prepare this painting for presentation by Her Majesty The Queen to Pakistan, on the occasion of the State visit during Pakistan’s Fiftieth Anniversary in October 1997.
