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1. Art 21 project
By- Farah Ali

2. By- Maya Lin
Avalanche
1997
Tempered glass, water and wood.
10 x 19 x 21 feet
Photo by Jackson Smith
Maya Lin is famous for making life size art.
She is very much involved in the
environment. She also likes to create
individual spaces by being inspired with the
landscape. She likes to work as an artist and
an architecture. Maya Lin’s art work is very
similar to Andy Goldsworthy, where he
creates things from nature and in natural
settings, but unlike most of his work, Maya
Lin’s works are permanent.

3. By- Farah Ali
Snow storm
1/25/14
Print size variable
My picture is similar to Maya Lin’s as this
also displays the natural phenomena and it’s
effect. The color of the snow reflects the
color of the avalanche from Maya lin’s art
work. Moreover, the water theme in both the
pictures is the basic and most important
similarity. Also, this picture is life size and
three dimensional just like hers’.
Furthermore, like Maya lin’s work, this
photograph displays the pattern of the waves
as well.

4. By- Raymond Pettibon
The bright flatness
2003
water color on paper
39 x 38 ½ inch
I found this picture in the chapter 21. I think
this picture is similar to the previous art
slides as they are themed around water,
natural phenomena, and landscape. Also,
Maya Lin likes to present depth in her art
work as the form of waves in the landscapes
and what can be better than the picture of
waves itself when finding the same patterns
and similarities. We can also see the
similarity of the color patterns in each
pictures. As with the life-size style art of
Maya lin, the man represents the perfect
scale and making the waves look life-size.

5. By- Shazia Sikander
Writing the Written
2000
vegetable color, dry pigment, water color, tea
and a special paper.
8 x 5 1/2 inches
I am mesmerized by Shazia Sikander’s art
style and her concepts. This Picture really
represents the spirituality. Sikander’s art
work is based upon her positive child hood
experiences and are very similar to Kara
walker’s narrative and William Kent ridge's
animation style. The Arabic text represent the
form of worshipping where the worshippers
are in the zone of ecstasy in this painting. It
usually takes her years to create a painting
like this since she colors over and over by
creating depth in the paintings.

6. By- Farah Ali
Five Prayers
1/25/14
Print size variable
In this picture one can feel the spirituality
just like in the painting of Sikander.
Worshipper is praying and being unaware of
his/her surrounding by going into the state of
spirituality. One can also notice the
interconnection of two religions just like
Sikander displays in her art works. We can
see the worshipper pose is very similar to the
pose of yoga, but in reality, here, one of the
five prayers of Muslims is being performed.

7. Artist- not given
Tile mosaic mihrab
From Madrasa Imami
Isfahaan, Persia (Iran)
fourteenth century 1354 restored
Composite bidy, glazed, sawed to shape and
assembled
11 ft. 3 in 7 ft 6 in. by
This picture is from chapter 18 in our
textbook, and has the same theme as my
previous 2 slides. This Mihrab reminds one
about worshipping and spirituality. Also, the
verses of Quran are written here just like in
the art work of Sikander represented
them, whereas, in my photograph it was
being recited by the worshipper, and we can
see it easily that the same concept is
represented in all three pictures here.

8. By- Andrea Zittel
Various A-Z Six Month Seasonal Uniforms
1992-1995
Various fabrics, leather straps, and
suspenders.
dimensions variable
Installed at
Diechtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
Photo by- Jens Rathman
Andrea Zittel is one of my favorite artist on
minimalism. Through her art works, she is
giving the message of not to run after the new
fashions and designs and if you do not wear
the latest trend and designer brands it should
not matter. What matters is how these trends
are making us materialistic and making us
loose our real focus by not letting us see the
most important things that life has to offer.
Shirin Nishat’s work can be related to Zittel’s
work as she is giving the same message as
Zittel. To be liberated one does not have to
look and act like the way media is portraying.
Nishat is also telling through her paintings
the same concept. Moreover, we can notice
the three dimensional aspects of most of
Zittel’s work where one can experience the
whole setup.

9. By- Farah Ali
Hijab
1/25/14
Print size variable
This Islamic outfit represents the same
concept as Andrea Zittel’s. Once a women
learns to dress like this, she has broken the
societal pressures of designs and
consumption while liberating herself. The
continuation in routine instead of breaking it
is better as Zittel quoted and wearing the
same outfit everyday is better according to
her. The Hijab in Islam also reflects the same
idea. The person in the picture is wearing the
hijab and observes the similar values as
Zittel’s by not being a consumer even though
she is surrounded by the market place.

10. By- Casper David Freidrich
Monk by the sea
1809-10
Oil on Canvas
42 ½ x 67 inch
I chose this picture from chapter 20 as this
painting represents the isolation and the
darkness of the art works of Andrea Zittel
where by adopting her ideas one will feel like
they have isolated themselves from
society, but at the same time, society isolates
them too because of their lack of assimilation
factors.