I like this picture of a wall painting of Shah Abbas for the lattice -pattern or quincunx patterned carpet he kneels on. And the line of dancing girls at the front.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Persian textile pattern detail on House.
skip to main |
skip to sidebar
Persian textile pattern detail on House.
.jpg)
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.
According to the psychologist C.G.Jung coincidence, i.e. seeing Quincunxes everywhere occurs when the archetypes are activated!
ReplyDeleteThis simple 2 - 1 - 2 pattern can be seen even in brick-work.
Visual artists in particular seem to experience a curious empathy towards Browne's discernment of the Platonic Forms in Art and Nature.