Over the years, Babel Khan has quietly built an extraordinary and visionary body of work from his farm in North Carolina. This will be his first exhibition of his Art. His rich and distinctive visual and written language explores Babylon Canton. It is Kahn’s Homeland. His State of Mind. Where his experience and knowledge of the world comes together - into a tapestry of painted, stamped and collaged images.
Inflation, War, the Rise and Fall of Nations, Globalization, the Military Industrial Complex, Financial Institutions, Prophecy, Apocalypse, Political, Economic, Social/Cultural themes are explored in his work.
Khan writes:
In his classic novel Mumbo Jumbo, Ishmael Reed's character Abdul Hamid (born Johnny James) describes his path in life as follows:
"I applied myself. I went through biochemistry, philosophy, math. I learned languages . . . . I had no systematic way of learning but proceeded like a quilt maker, a patch of knowledge here a patch there but lovingly knitted. . . . It occurred to me that I was borrowing from all of these systems : Religion, Philosophy, Music, Science and even Painting, and building 1 of my own composed of their elements. It was like a Griffin. I had patched something together out of my own procedure and the way I taught myself became my style, my art, my process."
Reed's description of Abdul Hamid's journey can be applied to me.