shadow integration

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Beyond al Nafs is a painting collection, exploring the tension between individuality and collective belonging through a sufi and indigenous perspective. The title refers to the nafs in Islam — the ego or self — which in Sufi thought must be transcended to move closer to the Divine. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">These works reflect on how hyper-individualism, rooted in Eurocentric ideals, disrupts our capacity for empathy, solidarity and shared responsibility. Through layered compositions in acrylics and oil pastels, I use organic forms and symbolic motifs to explore the inner depths of a soul, the vulnerability of facing one’s inner self and the transformative potential of kinship, memory, earth-human connection and spiritual trust.</span></p>