Between 1943 and 1949, Suha Traboulsi, a prominent yet highly controversial Arab artist, painted 21 equally sized canvasses. Each consisted of four carefully considered elements: a color geometric abstraction in the middle
of each canvas;  its frame (from ornate to simple, wood to metal and gold Victorian or Rococo-type frames to plain minimalist Plexiglas box frame); the frame’s shadow (from faint to sharply delineated); a neutral ground. 

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In 1997, Traboulsi asserted that these paintings were inspired by the business cards she had collected over the years from various Arab artists, gallerists, curators, dealers, collectors, framers, insurers, technicians, among others.