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Archetypal story: Earth painting
Transformation of ugliness to beauty
A ritual for rain & feet traces
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.
An Iranian sculptor brings his art to the river, beaches—and parks.
On the first January 2008 we received British sculptor, Benjamin Hewett (Ben) who came to our Paradise. On the 2nd of April 2008, Ben went back home. Before he left I give him one of my carvings which had a design of a bird. I called this bird “the Bird of Peace”. Ben will take it home and make a nest in a hollow of a tree where he lives and this bird will start a new life.
Sculpture Magazine (Vol. 27, No. 2) March 2008
Environmental Art Festival on the Persian Gulf
Print on Sand in the Coast of Pesian Gulf Works By Ahmad Nadalian
Environmental Installation and Music with Garbage
New works by Nadalian in “Verdearte” 2006: Italy
Environmental Installations and Performance
Designs on Portraiture by Red Earth
Performance and Environmental Installations
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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.
I was determined to recycle these glasses
Transforming ugliness into beauty
For dark colors I mixed some organic materials I used my organic brush, ink and colored earth to produce these painting behind glass (stained glass?)
Now we can recycle these glasses and use them for paintings
I suggest that this be the handicraft of this island
Colored earth pigments and deer are two things that tourists know of at Hormoz Island
A gift from me to people and from people to tourists
I decided to teach this type of painting to people
I taught them how to prepare the colors
For this method of painting they can use a pattern
One of the women named Kaniz usually uses live snail, slug, cochlea and shell to make necklaces and other handcraft. This is a job of many jobless families in the Island I told her that catching these creatures from the sea in large scale may result in long-term environmental crises
Kaniz and her daughter begin to paint. They start with the name of God.
One night we arrange a sale for their works. The environmental artist bought works from them As a result, she produces more works
tree of life
A note by the daughter of Kaniz So far she doesn't know that she should write in reverse.
I teach one of the local girls to use organic earth and brush to paint on hands This is an alternative for Hana. They can paint on the hand and face of tourists and earn money
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