Athar — اثر
Nine miniature abstracts on memory, script, and trace
Athar (اثر) - trace, imprint, remnant, effect. Nine miniature mixed media paintings exploring layered memory, Arabic script, and texture. Each artwork takes its title from a word that lives inside the painting itself, rather than describing it from the outside. The collection will be exhibited at Jacaranda Images, Amman.
The Nine
DHIKR - ذِكر
2026
Remembrance. The kind that surfaces quietly, like writing rising through fog.
Sahil — ساحل
2026
Shore. Where every wave leaves its trace.
Tafakkur — تَفَكُّر
2026
Contemplation. One small figure, still, before the immensity.
SHAWQ — شَوق
2026
Longing. Ya Rasul Allah - the yearning that calls out to the Beloved of Allah ﷺ.
N/ida — نِداء
2026
A call. Dakhilak - the opening of a plea that finds its completion in Shawq.
KHALWA — خَلوة
2026
Seclusion. The mountain retreat - stillness sought above the noise of the world.
UFUQ — أُفُق
2026
Horizon. Where two worlds meet - the veiled heavens above, the dunya below.
SAMA — سَماء
2026
Sky, or heaven. In Arabic, one word holds both.
HUDUR — حُضُور
2026
Presence. Felt rather than seen - where remembrance arrives.
On the Word Athar
In Arabic, athar is the mark a thing leaves behind - a footprint in sand, the trace of ink through paper, the effect of a person long after they have left the room. These nine miniatures are built the way memory is: in layers. Fragments of Arabic text, veils of colour, marks half-erased and half-preserved. Each painting holds what remains when most of the story has faded and asks you to look closer at what was almost lost.
Exhibition
The Athar Collection will be shown at Jacaranda Images, Amman. Each artwork is an original mixed media painting on panel (12 x 12 cm) and available to view in person at the gallery. For enquiries about availability, please get in touch.
Athar is the newest chapter in an ongoing exploration of Islamic spiritual heritage and the wider Arabic literary tradition - alongside the Hu Collection and new work exploring Al-Busiri's Burda, currently underway in the studio.