Orientation Week

THE ADVENTURES OF AMIR HAMZA

The module began with the introduction of the book 'THE ADVENTURES OF AMIR HAMZA' narrates the legendary exploits of Amir Hamza, or Hamza ibn Abdul-Muttalib, an uncle of Muhammad. Most of the stories are extremely fanciful, "a continuous series of romantic interludes, threatening events, narrow escapes, and violent acts". The Hamzanama chronicles the fantastic adventures of Hamza as he and his band of heroes fight against the enemies of Islam.

After the introduction and reading few chapters of the book we were divided into groups of 2 and assigned one chapter each from the book. we were supposed to read and therefore make sketches based on the chapter.

After drawing out the sketches and understanding the chapter through them, I moved on to making installation based on our sketches.

My sketch was powerful and one feature mainly stood out was the sword and its movement.

Based on that, I aimed to make an installation based on that swirling movement of the sword.