Thursday, September 27, 2007

Patterns In Our World

Patterns can be found everywhere in our lives. There are patterns on the architecture of religious sites like mosques churches, and temples. Patterns can also be found in homes on floors and walls. They also adorn our clothing and jewelry. For hundreds of year humans have been using patterns for adorning, communicating, and expressing themselves. Patterns can be as simple as a repeated clover design or as complicated as an Islamic floral wall tile. The Islamic patterns are very unique as art forms. They are considered to represent the unchanging laws of God. In this way the patterns are a construction of geometric patterns that provide a visual analogy to religious rules of behavior. Muslims believe that the contemplation of creating the patterns 9the creative skills) lead to an understanding of the perfections of a Universal Nature. The Islamic patterns begin with a circle, which is the symbol of one God, and the center of Islam. The circle also has always been considered to represent a symbol of eternity - without a begging and without an end.

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