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God, as Aisha sees Him, is universal and people of most faiths believe in Him in some shape or form. Therefore irrespective of one’s religion, the Presence of God is very apparent in her work. This ‘presence’ that she refers to, is a form of a spirit, something invisible yet real. It is a spirit that guides, a spirit of our soul and a spirit of light. There is nothing else in any of our scientific disciplines that compares to it.
The purpose of art is the attempt to make the invisible understandable or “real” or “felt” like when we are moved by hearing a piece of music or looking at a work of art.
Jean Francois Lyotard (1924-1998) – A French philosopher and literary theorist tries to exlpain in his book Sublime and the Avant Garde: "To make visible something, which can be conceived; and which can neither be seen nor made visible; and how to make visible that there is something, which cannot be seen. Immanuel Kant shows the way through formlessness, the absence for, as a possible index to the unpresentable"
For Aisha Lyotard has explained this so well, that he has helped her understand the challenge that she is faced with, in trying to present the un-presentable. This challenge of the unknown world emerges into the realm of spirituality, where the imagination runs freely into the depth of the formlessness.
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