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A large crescent torn from clay-coloured paper hangs in a moss field that is itself torn across a bone sheet, with a thin sand strip at its foot. A small torn bone circle sits in the open side of the crescent, and a soft shadow lifts the clay off the page.
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New Moon

No. 6 of 20 · free · 300 dpi

What you seeA large crescent torn from clay-coloured paper hangs in a moss field that is itself torn across a bone sheet, with a thin sand strip at its foot. A small torn bone circle sits in the open side of the crescent, and a soft shadow lifts the clay off the page.

What it meansThe hilal, the first thin crescent after the new moon, marks the start of each month in the lunar calendar and is watched for at the beginning and end of Ramadan. Here it is made the way the rest of the series is made, from torn paper shapes.

Where it worksMade for a large wall in a living room or entrance, and a meaningful gift for Ramadan, Eid or a new home.

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A wide clay bowl sits on a sand shelf against a paper wall, its rim shown as a darker ellipse. Fine gold seams run through the glaze where it once broke, and one missing piece near the rim is filled in gold.Mended BowlNo. 7
A dark-edged window opening in a clay wall frames a sand sky, a bone sun and a moss hill. A bone sill runs beneath it.WindowNo. 8
An ink arched doorway is set into a moss wall above a sand floor. A bone wedge of light spills from the door towards the viewer, over a thin clay step.ThresholdNo. 9
A tall arched recess is set into a pale plaster wall, its inner curve shaded where the lip casts a shadow. On its bone sill stands a clay vase holding one dried moss-green stem.NicheNo. 10
Four torn circles of bone, clay, moss and bone are layered on a sand ground, each slightly lower than the one beneath. A darker sand shadow sits under each edge.Paper CutsNo. 11
Three vessel silhouettes, a stoppered sand flask, a round clay jar and a low bone cup, stand in an overlapping row on an ink shelf. The wall behind is moss.Three VesselsNo. 12
A large ink circle holds six circles of clay, sand and moss, one of them touching the rim. A single clay circle has rolled away to rest on a thin sand table line near the lower right.Fruit Bowl from AboveNo. 13
Four bands of torn paper in clay, sand, bone and moss are nested one inside the next to make a single stepped arch on a paper ground. They stand on a torn ink floor, with a small paper doorway left open at the centre.Nested ArchesNo. 14

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