The key to understand the mystical concept of romantic elation is the idea of nazar ‘reverie’- staring with love and adoration at a beloved one.
It is an expression of deep affirmation of feelings, however without sexual fulfillment. In Muslim mystical poetry Shahid – it is a proof of God's presence, a reflection of Godness beauty on Earth. In an ancient convention it was a beautiful young man. The concept of ‘Divine footprint on Earth’ claims that the world is seen as a reflection of supernatural reality. The overwhelming feeling of which the object of love is gifted, enables to enter the transcendence by the possibility to see deeper. The work of art is an experimental form of clothing which, without a semantic layer, creates a
different, separate being. On a model it gets a second layer which, through its form and transparency, seems to penetrate the skin and becomes a part of the person. It works with a very organic, spherical plastic form.
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