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Carver of Urdu prints

I also have this thing with the Urdu language, it features heavily in my prints – I love the cursive font and poetic imagery of the language. My pages are listed in both Urdu and English, let me transl(iter)ate the words for you:

Urdu alphabet flashcards

گھر – ghar – home
میرے بارے میں – meri bareh mein – about me
بلاگ – blog (literally!)
مہمانوں کی مضمون – mehmano ke mazmoon – guest essays
شکریہ – shukria – thank you
دکان – dukaan – shop
رابطہ – raabta – contact

شکریہ Thank you

You can read my interview with Handprinted UK here:

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I'm in between projects. Here's an old one of the 1984 postage stamp. Big Brother is Watching You and your phone is listening to you. Link in bio. Reposting this Big Brother is Watching You block while I start work on the rest of the series of stamps from Oceania From Your Mirror is listed on my Etsy site. If you follow Ali A Olomi on Twitter you may recognise where this print comes from and you may want to start counting all those mirrors in your home 😳 I like to decorate my post to entertain postal workers and buyers. Thank you a thousand times over for your orders this week, it means the world to me. The animals that form part of the border of the text are references and symbols taken from The Weird Sisters' speeches, including this wolf. Also, I'm signing my Macbeth prints in the right column. You'll need to scrutinise the print to see everything. I've listed Macbeth on my Etsy. It comes unframed, this one in my hands is for @almeida_theatre if they'll accept it and just as soon as I find the courage to tell them. Oh, it cometh in black too This is an @essdee_uk appreciation post while I am literally watching ink dry on paper. I use softcut lino for my graphic novel prints because I find the texture of the block the best for me to carve tiny letters into. I also love the way the material takes on the colour of the ink. Thank you for all the stuff, @essdee_uk Here we go. I hope you all like it.

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