The story starts with Harry St. John Philby, who crossed the Empty Quarter desert in the 1930s looking for the ruins of an ancient city. Instead of an Atlantis of the Sands, he found the remains of what he believed to be a volcano, which turned out to be one of the largest impact craters formed by a meteorite.
Visual artist Monira Al Qadiri, born in Senegal in 1983 to Kuwaiti parents and educated in Japan, came to us with the idea. For her solo exhibition The Holy Quarter she needed glass stones, meteorites more than a hundred times their original size. It was a challenge, but we proudly present: The Stone of Glass.
More information about the project: moniraalqadiri.com
