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Archetypal story: Earth painting
A gift of Persian Gulf from me to people and from people to tourists
Transformation of ugliness to beauty
Thanks to Mr Zarshenas and Salamati, members of the city canciel in Hormoz. They provided the bicycle of peace. Hasan and Aboulrasoul Daryapeima who facilitated my projects. Khadijeh Khonjizadeh,
Alireza Mahwari Habib Abadi the head of Persian Gulf Marine Environmental research center who hosted me in their center and Kaniz family (her mother , daughter and son) who cooked food for me...
PARADISE (PARDIS) is a celestial garden. The words of paradeisos in Greek, paradise in European languages, and firdaws in Arabic, originally came from Persia the "Avestan pairi-daeza" , meaning garden, itself was the terrestrial image of the celestial garden of paradise. The term of paradise also means a piece of land made more agreeable than its surroundings by cultivation or an enclosure, and especially a royal park. In the Islamic religious text paradise (firduws), is described as an eternal spring and garden with which the trees have continuous blossoms and everything is joyful. In this garden, there is no time and its inhabitants are all young. According to Sufis, paradise is the manifestation of absolute beauty and the inhabitants of "Paradise" enter into every beautiful form that they conceive and desire . Moslem mystics simply interpreted paradise as being the good deeds of man.
Journey across South Africa: The Sprit of Rocks and Water
Calendar of our journey in South Africa
Paradise & Hell :18th Environmental Art Festival
Environmental art is the art of the future. We can learn how to behave with nature. I wish in the future we could have one environmental art event per day.
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Report by Ahmad Nadalian In the middle of January 2009 I traveled to Hormoz Island. In addition to my ‘bicycle of peace’, I realized several new environmental art projects. In early February 2009 many environmental artists traveled to Hormoz Island to hold the 20th Environmental Art Festival in Iran, focused on the theme of "The Human and The Environment". Most of my environmental art works created at Hormoz Island were paintings with organic colored earth. One day the people of Hormoz invited me to a holy place where they had a ritual ceremony. They wanted to pray for rain.
In the holy place I learned that many years ago this location had a flat stone on which feet traces was carved. The people believed these feet traces belonged to a holy person. Many years ago after the Islamic revolution, some people ignored this belief and dropped the stone into the sea. In 1982 a storm in the sea killed 500 people in the Persian Gulf. People in Hormoz believe that this storm was the consequence of dropping stone with carved feet into the sea.
For me that carving was an art work, too. I search for a flat stone and reproduce the stone with feet traces and dedicate it to the people.
Ritual ceremony for rain
As a result of this wish, we had a good rain that same day
Red color flowing
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