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حبيب روحي
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in the bloom of their joy and the flower of their happiness.
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You are on a walk, hey sana,
I'm trying to articulate my designer statement… and as I work on it, I'm reflecting on the last 2 years of my life and all the things I’ve created. When you are stopped in your tracks by the most beautiful flower you have ever seen. You want it. Everything I have made expresses some sort of emotion felt, experience had or interaction held in my life. You want to take it home and put it in water and hope that it will grow roots and blossom under your care. My work is meaningful to me, and i hope it is to others as well. You want to come home after a long day and tell them all your troubles. I want my work to also be cool, maximalist, oversaturated, authentic – you know, the things I’ve always wanted my work to be. You want this flower. But you need scissors. As you know, in the last two years, I have loved, lost, missed, won, been rejected, been accepted, forgotten who I was and remembered again. What if you go and come back and it's not here anymore? I came face to face with my identity and upbringing and addressed some of my biggest concerns regarding my beliefs. You’re going to run home and get the scissors, you decide, but first you pray. and i have fallen You ask God to protect your flower while you are gone. in even more love with God, You pray: myself, “If this is meant to be, if this is what is best for me, my family, if this is what will bring me eternal happiness, friends, then allow for my precious flower those around me, to be here when i get back. and the world. And if not, God, grant me something better.” I think, I hope, that my portfolio reflects all of that. You feel more at ease now. You get off your knees and you run towards your apartment. But I have also, on multiple occasions, been exhausted by all the things that come with choosing to create in the way that I do, As you walk up the 3rd flight of stairs, you are having second thoughts. especially as a person of color making work about my life.
I'm trying to articulate my designer statement… and as I work on it, I'm reflecting on the last 2 years of my life and all the things I’ve created. When you are stopped in your tracks by the most beautiful flower you have ever seen. You want it. Everything I have made expresses some sort of emotion felt, experience had or interaction held in my life. You want to take it home and put it in water and hope that it will grow roots and blossom under your care. My work is meaningful to me, and i hope it is to others as well. You want to come home after a long day and tell them all your troubles. I want my work to also be cool, maximalist, oversaturated, authentic – you know, the things I’ve always wanted my work to be. You want this flower. But you need scissors. As you know, in the last two years, I have loved, lost, missed, won, been rejected, been accepted, forgotten who I was and remembered again. What if you go and come back and it's not here anymore? I came face to face with my identity and upbringing and addressed some of my biggest concerns regarding my beliefs. You’re going to run home and get the scissors, you decide, but first you pray. and i have fallen You ask God to protect your flower while you are gone. in even more love with God, You pray: myself, “If this is meant to be, if this is what is best for me, my family, if this is what will bring me eternal happiness, friends, then allow for my precious flower those around me, to be here when i get back. and the world. And if not, God, grant me something better.” I think, I hope, that my portfolio reflects all of that. You feel more at ease now. You get off your knees and you run towards your apartment. But I have also, on multiple occasions, been exhausted by all the things that come with choosing to create in the way that I do, As you walk up the 3rd flight of stairs, you are having second thoughts. especially as a person of color making work about my life.
You are scared. You are always a little scared but especially when it comes to flowers. The constant need to explain myself and my work and aspects of my identity has been debilitating at times. You remember your last flower, and how much it hurt when you had to say goodbye. And truthfully, I am so tired and bored of all that discourse. It has seemed, since you were young, that flowers were always leaving. Maybe you’re the problem. I am more interested in topics about beauty and why we find things beautiful. I try to make beautiful things and yes, I find them beautiful because of who I am, and what it means to me, and I would like for that to be enough of a reason. You just want a flower to be happy. But you are scared. A flower is as it is and when we see one we feel whatever we have chosen to associate with that particular flower.You have every right to be scared. The title of this zine is “in the bloom of their joy and the flower of their happiness”, But this flower is different, this flower sparks a sense of hope in you. the title is a quote by Ibn Hazm in which he uses this phrase to refer to a couple newly in love. This flower is not going to leave. This book will be an ode to that feeling of a fresh relationship, This flower is going to stay. new beginnings, You reach the 7th floor and coming back to oneself. and rush to open your apartment door, grab the scissors and rush back out. Through its visuals, which are all based on my research around love and beauty in islamic philosophy, When you get there, you see your flower. digital love languages, This flower is different, you tell yourself, and interactions between myself and my loved ones. This book is my flower and it is as it is. this flower is going to stay.
THE CURRENT SUDAN CRISIS
