For a stunning installation entitled Intersections, Indianapolis-based mixed media artist Anila Quayyum Agha created a large wooden cube that bathes gallery spaces in breathtakingly intricate shadows. It’s like a much larger, more precise version of the coconut shadow lamps we featured last week.

Suspended from the gallery ceiling, the cube measures 6.5 feet square, each side of which was laser-cut with intricate patterns that are cast on the walls, floor and ceiling by a single light bulb in the center of the cube. The effect is truly dazzling.

Anila was born in Lahore, Pakistan and this mesmerizing project “combines the patterning of Islamic sacred spaces with architectural aesthetics.”

“The Intersections project takes the seminal experience of exclusion as a woman from a space of community and creativity such as a Mosque and translates the complex expressions of both wonder and exclusion that have been my experience while growing up in Pakistan. The wooden frieze emulates a pattern from the Alhambra, which was poised at the intersection of history, culture and art and was a place where Islamic and Western discourses, met and co-existed in harmony and served as a testament to the symbiosis of difference. For me the familiarity of the space visited at the Alhambra Palace and the memories of another time and place from my past, coalesced in creating this project.

Visit Anila Quayyum Agha’s website to learn more about this extraordinary project.

[via Beautiful/Decay]