The Calligraphy.
While Mickey Boston himself is a formaer gaffitti artist, his exploits within Caligraphy are present yet seldomly invisible. His boy Akram Rashman the Human Torch takes credit after being endowed in creating a few works of art to capture Hasan al-Qalam’s poetic endeavor:
I am influenced by specific great Islamic, Muslim poets from Khurasan, Persia, Turkistan, Kashmir, India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan…poets like Rumi, Hafez Shirazi, Shams, Omar Khayyam, Iqbal, Mirza Ghalib are clearly beautiful…I needed a genre of calligraphy which embodied the pen…I am Hasan al-Qalam named after the Arabic word for pen (al-Qalam), as a result, I wanted something beautiful…I turned to Akram who modeled the pen…it was quintessential…the ink of the scholar is more valuable than the blood of the martyr…the pen for me means so much, it’s mightier than the sword…you will always see me with a pen either behind my ear, in my kufi, in my turban, my baseball cap, in my mouth as I try to think of a rhyme, or simply between my thumb and index…moreover, the pen is my sword, im a writer, a poet…Akram Rashman got it on the money when he produced this work of art which plays consistent to the Pelican Brieff logo which has books in all four corners which stands for intellectualism and the pursuit of knowledge--something each Muslim is responsible to attain…I wanna send a special salaam, one love, and thanks to the Human Torch, Ahram Rashman for all his calligraphy…I know he admires the logo I made by my own hand…
