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Ahmad Nadalian Sand Prints Susan Lomuto With a profound respect for the environment, Iranian artist Ahmad Nadalian has etched thousands of stones with images of fish, crabs, faces, hands and feet which he then buries in the earth or tosses into bodies of water around the world. Thousands of stones, small and large. Nadalian also carves cylinder seals and uses them in his worldwide quest to bring awareness to environmental issues. Cylinder seals are stone, glass or ceramic cylinders that were engraved with a story and used in ancient times to roll an impression of the images onto clay. The hand-carved cylinder seals boast simple images of ocean and river life. The artist rolls these seals along the sandy beaches of the world’s oceans, often leaving the seal at the site of the sand print for the waters to wash away to another shore, in honor of the fisherman who might find it someday.
Nadalian @ Dialogues in Diversity
Print on Sanin in Maranjab Desert
Print on Sand in the Coast of Persian Gulf
A Comment by American artist Abigail Doan Ahmad Nadalian's recent work created with his students and colleagues at the Environmental Art Festival in the Persian Gulf might actually save the world. I believe that every one who experiences these pieces and their environmental optimism, might believe once and for all, that there are indeed solutions to the environmental ills and conflicts that we face in the world. More
New Print on Sand in the Coast of Persian Gulf
Print of Crab on Sand in the Coast of Persian Gulf
Installation of cylinder and Sand Print
Print on Sand in the Coast of Pesian Golf Works By Ahmad Nadalian
Print of Crab on Sand in the Coast of Persian Gulf
Installation of cylinder and Sand Print
Print of Crab on Sand in the Coast of Persian Gulf
Print on Sand in the Coast of Persian Gulf
A Comment by my American- Italian artist Abigail Doan Ahmad Nadalian's recent work created with his students and colleagues at the Environmental Art Festival in the Persian Gulf might actually save the world. I believe that every one who experiences these pieces and their environmental optimism, might believe once and for all, that there are indeed solutions to the environmental ills and conflicts that we face in the world. More
Environmental Art Festival on the Persian Gulf
Print of Crab on Sand in the Coast of Persian Gulf
Installation of cylinder and Sand Print
Print on Sand in the Coast of Pesian Golf Works By Ahmad Nadalian
Nadalian @ Dialogues in Diversity
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Print on Sand in the Coast of Persian Gulf ÝÇÑÓی Inspired by the example of ancient cylinder seals, I made a big cylinder seal and printed images along the beach and sand of desert.
A very long print of fish on the sand of coast in Persian Golf
The pattern of fish on the sand of coast in Persian Golf
Print on Sand in the Coast of Persian Gulf
These cylinder seal inspired by ancient example. However the images is new
Finally Nadalian witnessed rise of water and vanishings of his fish. This is new life.
Print of Crab on Sand in the Coast of Persian Gulf
Installation of cylinder and Sand Print
In the Shahdad desert I printed some of my fresh cylinder seals. Most of my previous seals had been printed on the sand of the beach. Here I enjoyed seeing a new texture.
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