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thisheartwontdie:

“Zoomorphic Calligraphy established itself only relatively late in Islamic art, when the taboos outlawing religious iconography had lost some of their power. It is an art developed in Ottoman Turkey, India and Qajar Iran. People say, it was known as early as 1458.”

Artist: Hassan Musa from Sudan.

I’m getting zoomorphic calligraphy tattoo’d on my back. Saadiq tekmel b’lhouria or someshitlikethaticantwriteit, which means like… happiness completes freedom  but I always thought of it as happiness and freedom need each other to survive? you cant have one without the other? they are the opposite of mutually exclusive.

In the shape of a flying bird. It’d be awesome if I could get it in color (yellow) but that wouldn’t show up on my skin tone.

Its from a song called Coat Check Dream Song, which the writer says he envisions as a song you’d hear in the womb… and ends the song with traditional middle-eastern style singing (the arabic quote) BUT IT MEANS SO MUCH MORE THAN THAT BECAUSE it really feels right in terms of my relationship with my heritage, its something I heard in the womb (that style of music) and something in my blood, something I grew up on but its also kind of subconscious because I’m also very American at the same time.

My parents could find me an artist to create it but idk