The design of an artwork may catch the eye or draw you to an intricate pattern so renowned in Islamic art; but it is the language of colour that interprets the work and indeed the world for us.

Entering the neighborhood hammam is to retreat into a different private world, one of women only.

I spy with my little eye so the childhood game goes, but have you ever noticed how your eye or ear or mouth gets locked on to some particular shape, sound, smell or taste and that’s all you can notice?