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Noir Crépuscule

The canvas close up: rows of small leaf-shaped windows in the greys and blacks of dusk, a few of them gold, with hanging gold threads and the name NOURANE.
The canvas close up: rows of small leaf-shaped windows in the greys and blacks of dusk, a few of them gold, with hanging gold threads and the name NOURANE.

This is the signature canvas of NOURANE. Its name is Noir Crépuscule, the black of dusk.

Its pattern is the leaf-window: row on row of small arched windows, each shaped like a leaf, in the greys and blacks of evening, with one here and there still lit.

The canvas seen at a slant: gold threads hanging from small knots, and the name NOURANE in gold inside one window.

Through some of them a gold thread hangs from a small knot. We call it the wish thread.

The canvas is printed in two passes: first the base, in thirteen colours; then the threads, the knots and the name of the house, in metallic gold.

The house has one canvas. Every piece carries it.

سب کہاں کچھ لالہ و گل میں نمایاں ہو گئیں

خاک میں کیا صورتیں ہوں گی کہ پنہاں ہو گئیں

Not all of them, only a few came back as tulip and rose. What faces must lie hidden in the dust.

Ghalib
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