Amin Gulgee

Thus, according to Mr. Critchlow, the point of origin eludes definition, and yet is necessary to establish
when creating pattern. This idea finds a strong resonance in my own art practice, not only because my
work often deals with repetition and pattern, but because I have long wondered about the mysterious origin
of any creative idea.
In making my sculpture, I do not sketch or draw the work. It is a fluid, intuitive process in which shapes appear
in my mind and then are translated directly upon my material. It is a personal journey which in itself is
wholly absorbing and highly charged. I know that there are no absolute answers in this search for the past
and the future, only more questions. And even if the magic center remains unfathomable, the submission
to the process continues.
1
Keith Critchlow, Islamic Patterns: An Analytical and Cosmological Approach (London: Thames and Hudson, 1976), 9.
2
Ibid, 7.