The Impressionist
William Blake did a series of “Imaginary Portraits,” of such people as Adam and Eve (alayhi wa sallam), Chaucer, Dante, etc. W…
Drawings / Paintings
Walt Whitman
Querilous? Listening to the linnet, a new song? Dubious? Musing? Busy containing multitudes? – Our own wali.…
The Happiness of the Intelligent Universe
This sometimes annoyingly cheerful drawing came about with abstract figures and shap…
Some
When it came time to find a graphic that would somehow, some way, embody Some, a non sequitur Samuel Beckett kind of title, le…
D. H. Lawrence
Lawrence, so well known for his novels, scandalous or true, or scandalous AND true, but for me it’s his poetry that survives f…
The Conversations of Saints
I recall one time in Meknes, with our Shaykh Muhammd ibn al-Habib, raheemahullah, someone said to me that the shaykh once was …
The Real Layla
In the story of Layla and Majnun, we picture Layla as a beautiful girl, captivating and maddeningly gorgeous, body and soul, h…
A Dantean Vision
There are times, there are times… when the pen answers a call and draws the outlines of its silences, its pauses when what eme…
Arthur Rimbaud #3
The most accurate, or copied, of the lot… An iconic photograph we associate with him, since there are so few photographs, and …
Arthur Rimbaud #2
This drawing gets more of his contempt, the contempt of a dreamer, who envisioned an alchemical Utopia, seeing around him the …
Arthur Rimbaud #1
Was it that this twenty-year old wrote the most elegant, fiery, super-conscious, literature-if-not-world-changing poetry of th…
Down at the Deep End #9
This is from a series of abstract puzzle drawings I found myself doing during chemotherapy and radiation treatments, drawing m…