Text: “The Messiah, Son of God”.

Size & script: app. 250×200 mm, Jali Thuluth

Materials and tools: brownish kraft paper, black Indian ink and blue one

A calligraphy exercise that experiments with  two lines of texts, the upper one [“Son of God’] facing down. That is a very common artistic technique to produce a composition that can fit more text into a certain space, and achieve an eye-catching effect.