For this series of unique mixed-media paintings, Ahmed trained an AI to identify the use of wind as a metaphorical device to convey emotions and created an inventory of sentences for his ongoing project the Library of the Winds. Selected sentences are cut or written into marbled backgrounds based on flow visualisations and wind patterns along with the metadata from the AI. This juxtaposition reflects on how we superimpose meaning onto natural phenomena.

[“light wind”, “e_7”, “...finding her sluggish and awkward in the light wind of the Doldrums”]

Doldrums is a word often used to describe the depressive feeling that nothing is happening– an endless boredom. Doldrums are also an actual region off the coast of West Africa where no wind blows and the site of many lost ships throughout history.