Looking for a Sign

Shirin Towfiq

2022

Medium: Tea bags stitched with gold thread and photo transfer

Dimensions: 48” x 50”

Price: $5000.0 1000

Description: Looking For A Sign is an assemblage of tea bags stitched together, conveying memories, events, and visions of the future. Gathered from a daily ritual of tea-drinking, it constitutes a personal tasseography. Gold threads reference Persian folklore of magic carpets, suggesting journeys across space and time. The translucent quality of the tapestry evokes a window, a port