Umayyad Marble 1992-94

Bookmatched, quartersawn marble cladding in the interior of the Qubbat al-Sakhra Dome of the Rock, Masjid al-Aqsa, Old City, Jerusalem, Palestine, Israel.

Organic geometric patterns may have been a prototype, model or inspiration for subsequent artistic experiments in tesselation as well as abstract geometric patterning in the Islamic tradition.