She was worshipped as a guardian long before the word 'guardian' existed.
Bastet, daughter of Ra, protector of women and children, goddess of music, perfumes, and the safe interior of homes, stands here in a Galabiya, the loose traditional garment that has clothed Egyptian bodies for generations. It is a meeting of mythologies: the ancient and the everyday, the divine and the domestic. Egypt has always been this way. Multiple histories occupying the same body, the same street, the same artwork.
Created by Egyptian artist Ahmad El-Habashy, this puzzle is a portrait of a country that cannot be reduced to any single era. Pharaonic, Coptic, medieval, rural, modern, Egypt holds them all simultaneously, and this image does not choose between them. It holds them too.
For anyone who loves Egypt in all its complexity. For the Egyptian woman who has always known she contains multitudes. For anyone drawn to beauty that refuses to be one thing.
PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS
500 pieces · 34 × 48 cm · Premium matte finish · Artwork by Ahmad El-Habashy · Ages 14+
