Twelve Lanterns for Granada Twelve Lanterns for Granada

Boullata doubles and dissects quadrangles generated geometric compositions, still based on the square. Oppositional color contrasts heighten the ambiguity of seeming symmetries, and the fragmentation of angular forms reveals prismatic refractions. Colors thrusting forward and backward in shifting sequences traverse illusionary distance. The eye-crossing demarcations between inside and outside transcend simple reciprocities. Through geometry—whose Greek roots mean “measurement of land”—the exiled artist, half a world away from Jerusalem, relentlessly charts the transition from memory to imagination. (Kamal Boullata. “Art.” 2005)