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Throughout the years calligraphy has been considered in Iran as a national and noble art, and in the Islamic world, as it is the only way of illustrating the heavenly verses -among the experts and artists it is scrutinized and accepted to be the "heavenly art".
As a calligrapher, during 45 years of teaching and continuous work I have gathered a number of calligraphies, epigraphs calligraphy paintings, and two samples of relief pottery with dimensions of 450 square meters and 230 square meters. But as a painter, with a personal impression from this national art and an abstractive view, I have produced works that are well known as "Naghashi Khat" in Farsi or "Painting Calligraphy".
In these works, news and story telling were deciphered from combinations of letters, well known by the Iranians as a means of communication. I have used this technique in my works and by that I have found fully personal combinations, the visual structure of which is architecture of words.
They are poetry-like pieces which in a viewer's perspective look like texts without any misconception; white parts and black parts are two separated texts of the same story. These will take the viewer to a purely imaginary and magical world of words. ...
Mohammed Ehsai
