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One line, one circle, a niche, a slope, a single dot: prints reduced until each mark has to earn its place, on warm paper, oat, putty, clay, charcoal and deep moss.

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A hairline of ink crosses the sheet about two-thirds of the way down. Above it the paper warms from pale oat to a soft dusk; below, a field of sand deepens towards the foot. Just above the line and right of centre hangs one slim gold crescent.Evening HorizonNo. 1
A clay circle sits low on a sand ground, its lower half hidden behind a darker band of sand that runs along the bottom of the sheet.SettingNo. 2
Two equal squares, ink above left and clay below right, sit on a paper ground. They overlap only along a short shared edge, like a step.Two BlocksNo. 3
The whole sheet is charcoal except for a single slim crescent in gold, tilted and set above and to the right of centre, like the first moon of the month low in an evening sky.HilalNo. 4
A charcoal sheet with a darker floor band at its foot. Right of centre stands a single tall, narrow round-headed opening, filled with warm light that deepens from pale gold to amber, and a soft wedge of that light falls across the floor.Lit DoorwayNo. 5
A low charcoal slab rests on a band of putty near the foot of an oat sheet, with a wide clay block on top of it. On the block a sand square stands on a single corner, tipped forty-five degrees, a little left of the block's centre.BalanceNo. 6
A tall round-headed niche in warm paper is set into an oat sheet, with a narrow putty sill. An ink hairline drops from the top edge down the middle of the niche and ends in a small gold plumb bob.PlumbNo. 7
A tall, round-headed niche is set into a plaster-coloured sheet. Inside it the wall is a shade darker, with a deeper shadow curving round the arch and down the left side, and a thin pale sill runs beneath it.AlcoveNo. 8
Two thin ink uprights rise from the bottom edge of a sand sheet and carry a heavier ink beam near the top. Between the posts a round-headed arch of deep clay, darkening towards its head, fills the opening.GateNo. 9
A cream band crosses the full width of a rose ground a little below the middle, laid across a pale, round sun. Above, the rose lightens towards the top; below, it deepens to a warm terracotta.Rose EveningNo. 10
A smooth, rounded charcoal stone sits on a fine ink line, with a small clay pebble a little way to its right. Above the line the ground is putty; below it, a band of oat.StoneNo. 11
A sand quarter-circle fills the lower-left of a moss sheet, its curve rising past the middle of the left edge.CornerNo. 12
A fine gold circle floats just above centre on an ink ground warmed by a faint glow. Along its right-hand side the line thickens into a solid gold crescent, its outer edge following the circle exactly.Full and NewNo. 13
The sheet is divided exactly in half, dusty slate blue on the left and warm paper on the right. A circle sits on the seam with its colours swapped, paper on the slate side and slate on the paper side.Two HalvesNo. 14
The lower part of the sheet is filled with deep moss, its upper edge a straight line falling from just above the middle on the left to the lower quarter on the right. Above, warm paper deepens slightly towards the top, and a small gold eight-point star hangs high on the right.Evening StarNo. 15
A crisp charcoal hairline crosses the sheet near the bottom, with pale putty above it and oat below. Just right of centre a small charcoal dome sits on the line, topped by a short gold rod and a small gold crescent.Small DomeNo. 16
A tall, narrow round-headed door in deep charcoal stands right of centre in a sage wall, with a small brass knob, a pale stone step and a darker band of ground beneath, like a doorway seen from across a courtyard.DoorNo. 17
A round opening high in a charcoal room shows a pale sky and a slim crescent. A faint beam falls from it to the dark floor, where the light lies as a long soft ellipse of cream.SkylightNo. 18
A clay wall above a darker clay floor. Right of centre, the light from a tall two-paned window falls on the wall as two pale, warm slanting shapes split by the thin shadow of the frame, and bends at the foot of the wall to carry on across the floor.Window LightNo. 19
A pale slate sky meets a field of oat at a hairline horizon. A small gold sun sits on the horizon at the far left, and a single slim charcoal post stands on the ground, its sand-coloured shadow stretched long across the field towards the lower right corner.Long ShadowNo. 20
A row of slim, round-headed openings in charcoal stands along the foot of a pale oat wall, evenly spaced above a band of putty floor.ColonnadeNo. 21
A shaded brown wall with a few bright, round-headed openings, and below them their light thrown long across a clay floor as leaning arch shapes.Cloister LightNo. 22
A clay stair rises from left to right against a pale wall, with its stepped shadow falling just above and behind it, over a band of oat floor.StairNo. 23
A broad flight of pale steps climbs a sand-coloured terrace to a single arched doorway lit gold from within.AscentNo. 24
A small domed building on a plain ground under a slate sky: a square block with a dark arched door, a narrow drum, and a dome lit on one half and in shade on the other.QubbaNo. 25
The dark clay silhouette of a long, low building with one large dome and two smaller ones against a rose evening sky, a pale sun half hidden behind the main dome.Three DomesNo. 26
A tall window set deep in a clay wall, filled with pale sky and crossed by a few dark battens that meet in long diamonds.LatticeNo. 27
On a deep moss wall, a slanting patch of warm light is crossed by a lattice of diamond-shaped shadow, and folds at the foot of the wall onto the floor.Lattice LightNo. 28
A single charcoal lantern hangs on a long rod from the top edge of a slate-blue dusk. Under its domed cap, three pointed panes glow amber, the front one brightest, above a tapering base and a small drop finial.LanternNo. 29
A plan of a walled garden: four moss-green beds divided by two pale paths that meet at an eight-pointed star pool in the centre.CourtyardNo. 30
Looking straight up from the floor of a courtyard: four walls in sand, putty and oat lean in towards a rectangle of slate sky, the top of one wall caught by late sun.Open SkyNo. 31
A pointed niche set into a terracotta wall, edged by a slightly lighter frame, its recess darker with a deeper shadow along the top and left side.MihrabNo. 32
A view through a line of doorways, one behind the other, each smaller and deeper in tone than the last, ending in a small doorway of warm gold light.EnfiladeNo. 33
On a pale wall, the faint shadow of an arch that stands somewhere out of view; its two legs run on across the floor towards the viewer.Arch ShadowNo. 34
A single charcoal horseshoe arch, its curve carried a little past the half circle, framed by a thin clay rectangle on a cream wall.HorseshoeNo. 35
A moss-green wall pierced by two dark windows: a larger one low on the left and a small square one high on the right, each with a pale sill.Two WindowsNo. 36
A broad sand-coloured wall with one small, deep-set square window near the top, showing a patch of pale sky.High WindowNo. 37
A row of small bright openings runs along the top of a putty wall; lower down, each throws a slanting patch of light.ClerestoryNo. 38
A rose-pink wall striped with diagonal bands of shadow, wide and narrow in turn, above a deeper rose floor.Afternoon WallNo. 39
A low, open pavilion stands on a plain ground under a pale sky: a thin dark roof slab held by slim pale columns, the wall behind in shade.PorticoNo. 40
A row of shallow pointed arches recessed into a putty wall, each with a soft shadow along its edge; one is filled with clay.Blind ArcadeNo. 41
The top of a clay wall against a pale peach sky, crowned by a row of stepped merlons.ParapetNo. 42
A slender minaret, lit on one side and shaded on the other, stands to the right of centre under a slate sky, with one balcony, an upper shaft and a small dome.TowerNo. 43
A low flat-roofed house of sand-coloured plaster with a small arched door; above it rises a square tower with a row of dark vertical slots near the top.Wind TowerNo. 44
A cluster of flat-roofed houses in cream, oat and sand rises in steps under a pale sky, with a few small dark windows and one small dome.RooftopsNo. 45
A long pool of slate-blue water runs back across a pale courtyard to a single dark arched doorway, which is reflected in the water.PoolNo. 46
A clay bridge with one round arch spans calm water; its pale reflection completes the arch into a full circle.BridgeNo. 47
A large round-headed opening in a dark wall frames a rose evening sky, a low horizon and a small pale sun just setting.Through the ArchNo. 48
A pointed niche in warm sand tones, its hood filled with tiers of small pointed cells stepping down from the crown.MuqarnasNo. 49
A tall pale gateway with a deep pointed recess, flanked by lower wings under a slate sky; a small gold-lit doorway sits at the back of the recess.IwanNo. 50
A round window in a dusky rose wall, with a lighter ring around it, a crescent of shade inside its upper left edge and a few thin dark lines dividing it into eight.Round WindowNo. 51
In a dark moss interior, a beam of warm light falls from a small high window at the upper left down to a bright patch on the floor.Light ShaftNo. 52
A long, shallow horizontal recess set into an oat wall, shaded along its top and left edges, with a thin pale lip below.RecessNo. 53
The inside corner of a room: the left wall in warm light with a small arched niche, the right wall in shade, and the floor running away from the corner on both sides.Two WallsNo. 54
A clay garden wall steps down in three stages across a pale ground, its stepped shadow falling forward and to the right.Stepped WallNo. 55
Three pointed openings filled with warm pale light are set in a sand-coloured wall: a tall one in the centre between two shorter ones, above a pale sill.Triple ArchNo. 56
Looking straight up inside a domed room: an octagonal ring, a band of putty, and the pale dome itself brightening towards a small round opening at the top.Under the DomeNo. 57
Seen from above, rows of small domes cover a pale roof, each on its own square bay, half in light and half in shade, with a short shadow beside it; a straight street of shadow runs across the middle.Bazaar RoofsNo. 58
A round arch over a dark opening on a cream wall, its ring made of wedge-shaped stones in alternating clay and cream.VoussoirsNo. 59
A pale wall with a tall double doorway: the left leaf closed, in sand with a small gold handle, the right leaf open onto a dark interior.Half OpenNo. 60
Two dunes cross the lower half of a warm sky: a pale sand ridge behind and a terracotta one in front, each with a long windward slope and a short steep face. A small clay sun hangs above.Two DunesNo. 61
Three bands: a pale sky, a slate sea below a hairline horizon, and a strip of sand at the bottom edged with a thin white line of foam.Open SeaNo. 62
A full moon above a dark sea at night. Below it, the moonlight lies on the water as a column of short pale strokes that widen and fade towards the foot of the print.Moon PathNo. 63
A single palm in deep moss green stands on a hairline horizon against a warm paper sky, its slim trunk leaning gently and its fronds spread in a loose crown.Lone PalmNo. 64
An olive tree with a twisted double trunk that forks into a crown of rounded clumps, silvered on top and deeper green beneath, stands on a pale rose ground against a warm blush sky.Olive TreeNo. 65
A single olive sprig crosses an oat ground on the diagonal, with narrow leaves in two greens set alternately along the stem and two dark olives hanging on short stalks.Olive SprigNo. 66
Smooth stones, each smaller than the one below, are balanced in a column on a hairline ground, in charcoal, sand, clay and putty, against a pale grey-green field.CairnNo. 67
The silhouette of a tall ewer in charcoal, with a long slender spout rising to the right and a looped handle on the left, standing on a clay ground against a clay wall.EwerNo. 68
A round-bellied clay jar with a narrow neck and a flared lip stands on a putty ground. A single pale band rings its shoulder.JarNo. 69
Three dates in deep browns rest in a shallow charcoal bowl on a narrow foot, set in the middle of a pale paper ground.Three DatesNo. 70
A single clay-red tulip on a long, slowly curving stem, with one tall leaf rising from the base, set on a soft blush ground.TulipNo. 71
A single clay leaf, turned on its side as it falls, sits high in a wide sand-coloured field. A paler line marks its midrib.Falling LeafNo. 72
Fine pale strokes of rain slant down across a grey-blue sky and stop above a band of dark moss-green ground.RainNo. 73
Three overlapping triangles make a range of mountains on a pale ground: a tall charcoal peak in the middle, sand behind it to the left and clay to the right. A small gold sun sits above.Three PeaksNo. 74
A large pale full moon rises behind the shoulder of a single dark mountain, against a dusk sky that warms from grey-blue at the top to rose near the ridge.MoonriseNo. 75
Two soft-cornered blocks of colour float on a deep clay ground: a large warm orange block above and a narrower dark brown block below.Field StudyNo. 76
A deep moss field and a narrower pale paper field meet at a single fine gold line, set on the golden section of the sheet.Gold LineNo. 77
Three dark dune ridges layered one in front of another under a black sky scattered with small stars, with a small pale moon high on the left.Desert NightNo. 78
Two palms, one tall and one shorter, lean over a small oval pool of grey-blue water in a wide sand plain beneath a pale sky.OasisNo. 79
Four bands of sea, from pale grey-green to deep slate, each with a slow wave along its upper edge, beneath a pale sky with a small clay sun.SwellNo. 80
A small dark island sits on a hairline horizon in a pale, misty sea, its faint reflection lying on the still water beneath it.IslandNo. 81
Seen from above, pale sand fills the upper part of the sheet and slate sea the lower, divided by one long curving edge with a white line of surf and a band of shallow water.ShorelineNo. 82
Seen from above, a pale river winds in long, even curves from the top of the sheet to the bottom, through a field of olive green that darkens gently towards the foot.RiverNo. 83
A single round pomegranate in warm clay red, with its small pointed crown, sits in the middle of a deep moss-green ground.PomegranateNo. 84
A small waisted tea glass, filled with amber tea, stands on a dark saucer on a grey-blue ground.Tea GlassNo. 85
A single slate-blue drop of water falls above three faint rings spreading on a still paper surface below.DropNo. 86
A single flat-bottomed cloud in pale cream floats in a rose evening sky above a band of darker ground.CloudNo. 87
A single ear of wheat in gold, with its paired grains and fine whiskers, rises on a long curved stem on a charcoal ground. One leaf leaves the stem low down.WheatNo. 88
Two slender cypress trees, one tall and one shorter, rise from a sandy ground against a warm pale sky.CypressNo. 89
Three simple trees of different heights stand in a row on a hairline ground: a round olive-green one, a tall oval moss one in the middle and a small clay one.Three TreesNo. 90
Rounded hills in four greens overlap across the lower half of the sheet, from pale sage at the back to deep moss in front, with a small gold sun above.Green HillsNo. 91
Five nested half-circles rise from a horizon line, from deep clay at the centre through rose and blush to pale oat at the outside, on a paper ground.RisingNo. 92
Five ridges of hills, one behind another, deepen from pale blush at the back through rose and clay to near-black brown in front, under a warm dusk sky with a small pale sun.RangesNo. 93
Seen from above, six smooth pebbles of different sizes lie loosely grouped on sand: charcoal, cream, pale paper, slate, clay and a darker sand.PebblesNo. 94
A slender charcoal bottle vase holds a single leaning stem with small olive leaves and one clay bud, on a warm putty ground.Bud VaseNo. 95
A small boat with a single mast, a white mainsail and a clay foresail, sits on a slate sea just below a hairline horizon, beneath a pale sky.SailNo. 96
A single swift in charcoal, with long sickle-shaped wings and a forked tail, crosses a pale rose sky.SwiftNo. 97
A single date palm frond in deep moss green crosses a pale ground on the diagonal, its narrow leaflets swept forward along the stem.Palm FrondNo. 98
Two ripe figs in deep plum, one larger and one smaller, stand side by side on a pale rose ledge against a soft pink wall.FigsNo. 99
A clay sun on an oat field above, and a pale moon on a charcoal field below, the sheet divided evenly into day and night.Sun and MoonNo. 100
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