Illustration: Mahmudul Islam Forhad | Architect  and Academic

Narrator: Ashik Vaskor | Architect and Academic

‘Congregating wisdom’ inspires human being for the adventure of conquest all.  This gathered wisdom is the supremacy- it has the mystic magnetic aura to be invincible. But ultimately this conqueror is alone with his shiny sharp sword of knowledge. He has to metamorthosys to get liberation from his sacking thoughts. Architect Mahmudul Islam [Forhad] dissected this intelligent self identity of his human existence [it’s like a city scan or other pathological report]. Perhaps by stretching human body parts in his drawings, he tried to express how individual person fighting with his own shadow into the maze which have been created by himself. And at length from this dark silhouette he found his challenger emerged. His mind tried to cross all the hurdles in the vast field of living world which is full of emptiness but pregnant with meaning. And for crossing this journey he conceivably searched for a mathematical solution.  But he couldn’t decipher the equation in its two parts. He is endlessly trying but can’t reach to his ultimate nirvana. He [this isolated conquer being] found his portrait in the perplexed foggy colorless mirror of hesitation that, it has been demolished by a complex geometric expression. Did Forhad tried to open up his ‘being’ and ‘self inside’ like the scholarly who knows the past, present and future or like the Greek hero ‘Teiresias’?

Illustration by :

Mahmudul Islam Forhad | Architect .

Collected works – during the student year ranging 1999 to 2003 .

Mostly done on sketch book by using regular ink pen, gel pen, water color and poster color.

Exhibited in:

Group exhibition of five young architects ‘EXQUISITE CORPSE’– academic and recent works

Drik Gallery, Dhaka, 28th Feb to 6th March.2003