Ka´aba Earrings Swimming between coral

Swimming between coral

You are the poison and the sugar

and love of all around

” Each is a square in reference to the cubic shape of the Ka’aba and it is rendered in silver and plated with 24 carat gold

camels and ostriches

Ka´aba Earrings Swimming between coralDesigned for the British Museum Hajj 2012 Exhibition in London. These striking cufflinks represent the Kaaba when viewed from above during Hajj. The black onyx centre represents the Kaaba, itself, and the gold the surrounding crowd of pilgrims. The caligraphy reads: Mikat, Mecca, Mina, Plain of Arafat, Muzdalifa, Plain of Mina, and Mecca again, the seven stopping locations for a pilgrim on Hajj. Nowadays, gold is mined all over the world but in the