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Persian textile pattern detail on House.
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Historic Norfolk textile patterns in spices.
Constructed after reading Paul Virilio's 'War & Cinema'.
Sandblasted glass, light, concrete blocks
Persian Textile Flowers, researching The House is Black.
A scrapbook of research for artwork.
Persian textile pattern detail on House.
Of Interest .....
Dominique Rey
- Cyrus' Garden
- This is part of a period of visual research into WW2 bunkers and camouflage, Sir Thomas Browne's Garden of Cyrus and Urne Burial and Persian gardens and textile designs. Funded by Arts Council England, East.
The Mercer's Grains of Paradise (video still)
Historic Norfolk textile patterns in spices.
Facade
Constructed after reading Paul Virilio's 'War & Cinema'.
Threads
- Alderney (7)
- architecture (30)
- Atlantic Wall (2)
- barometer (1)
- Beehive (1)
- Bexhill-On-Sea (1)
- boat (1)
- Borges (1)
- bridge (2)
- Bunker (21)
- bunkers (7)
- butterflies (3)
- camouflage (15)
- carpet (1)
- chahar bagh (8)
- concrete (5)
- cranes (6)
- Cyropaedia (1)
- Cyrus (4)
- dam (3)
- Damascus (1)
- darkroom (1)
- decoy (1)
- docks (5)
- East Anglia (4)
- Forough (1)
- Garden of Cyrus (5)
- gardens (28)
- glass (1)
- graffiti (3)
- Guernsey (22)
- Hackfall (1)
- house (6)
- Iran (33)
- Iraq (1)
- Jersey (4)
- journeys (3)
- landscape (5)
- lifeboat (2)
- map (2)
- Martello Tower (3)
- mirrors (1)
- Morocco (2)
- moths (2)
- mulberries (1)
- Netherlands (1)
- Nissen Hut (2)
- Norfolk (3)
- occupation (1)
- orchards (1)
- paradise (10)
- pavilions (1)
- Persepolis (5)
- Persia (10)
- photography (1)
- poet (1)
- postcard (4)
- postcards (5)
- quincunx (5)
- Radar (3)
- religion (1)
- rural (1)
- Satellite (9)
- shadows (5)
- Shiraz (1)
- shrine (3)
- stamps (17)
- stevedore (2)
- Sudan (9)
- Sugar Silo (1)
- tank (1)
- The House Is Black (2)
- Thomas Browne (4)
- tomb (1)
- Tower (2)
- trees (3)
- Typology (1)
- Urne Burial (1)
- Valhalla (1)
- WW2 (26)
- Xenophon (1)
Some Books...
- A Guide to German Fortifications on Guernsey, Gavey, E.
- Bunker Archaeology, Virilio, P.
- Camouflage and Art, Goodden, H
- Channel Islands Occupied, Mayne, R and Jarrold Publishing.
- Desert Screen, Virilio, P.
- Embroideries, Satrapi, M.
- Festung Alderney, Davenport, T.
- Mirrors of The Unseen, Elliot, J.
- Pictures From Persia, Keeling, C.
- The Forgotten Empire - The World of Ancient Persia, Ed. Curtis & Tallis.
- The Garden of Cyrus, Browne, Sir Thomas.
- The New Iranian Cinema - Politics, Representation and Identity, Ed. Tapper, R.
- Urne Burial, Browne, Sir Thomas.
- War and Cinema, Virilio, P.
- Wild & Fearless - The Life of Margaret Fountaine, Scott-Stokes, N.
Bagh -i-Tut,
Sandblasted glass, light, concrete blocks
Persian Textile Flowers, researching The House is Black.
It isn't Browne's Quincunx! The term was first coined by the astronomer Kepler in 1604. (OED) Also the frontispiece illustration of the Quincunx to The Garden of Cyrus was in fact 'borrowed' from Della Porta's book Villa 1592 which was in Browne's Library ~(catalogue page 12 no. 120)
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