The Need to Matter

Samia Khan's artwork is inspired by the multiple cultures she has been immersed in. The art she makes serves to inspire, motivate and be a reminder of spiritual growth and selfactualization. She loves incorporating textual elements across all of her paintings. She specialises in abstracts with modern English and Arabic calligraphy to create inspirational art.

The Need to Matter is based on an Urdu verse by the poet Allama Iqbal about a grain of sand wanting to expand, but its reality is such that the whole desert is contained within a single grain. The sides of the painting have the verse in Urdu handwriting, meticulously written with glue and copper leaf and the centre has Arabic calligraphy in the Thuluth script surrounded by gold leaf texture.