Art is a journey into the most unknown thing of all - oneself. Nobody knows his own frontiers… I don’t think I’d ever want to take a road if I knew where it led.

Louis Kahan
    

GLORY , PRIDE , GARLANDS (3)


Garlands
Around my soul,
Leaves scorched by their inner autumn
Seem like a human purgatory:
Rootless. Unquenched.
    

DAY - DREAMING (1)

Dream: the throat of my double sigh:
The one that wants to find the past.
The one that wants to lose it.
    

MAGIC MOMENTS


Rain, unmixed with oblivion,
Filled my eye.
I walked
Upon images of God in the water
In my mouth- the sky.
    LONELINESS (2)

Maybe loneliness
Is a wounded bird with a single wing
That can’t return home.
Front flyleaf ia flap closed detail  Illuminated and illustrated Safavid copy of the first collection of poetry (Dīvān-i avval or Fātiḥat al-shabāb) by Nūr al-Dīn Jāmī (d. 898 AH / 1492 CE). http://www.thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W640 (click to enlarge)
Lacquer binding Label: This Safavid lacquer binding is decorated with hunting scenes and landscape motifs. It is attributable to the late tenth century AH / sixteenth CE or eleventh century AH / seventeenth CE. This is an illuminated and illustrated Safavid copy of the first collection of poetry (Dīvān-i avval or Fātiḥat al-shabāb) by Nūr al-Dīn Jāmī (d. 898 AH / 1492 CE). http://www.thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W640/description.html
Front flyleaf ia flap closed  Illuminated and illustrated Safavid copy of the first collection of poetry (Dīvān-i avval or Fātiḥat al-shabāb) by Nūr al-Dīn Jāmī (d. 898 AH / 1492 CE). http://www.thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W640
Safavid Garden Carpet The carpet, named the “Wagner” Garden Carpet after a German collector, is said to be reminiscent of the royal gardens in Isfahan. It is filled with fruit trees, leopards, gazelles, and even pigeons and butterflies, but it is definitely not portable. Its size is immense: 5.5 meters by 4.3 meters. here
A Safavid Blue and White Bottle, Persia, 17th Century.
A FINE AND RARE SAFAVID SILK TEXTILE FRAGMENT, PERSIA, LATE 16TH CENTURY here
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