Sunday, September 29, 2013

reflection shift


I live with colors! everything around me should be colorful, and I believe colors bring happiness to one's life. I mix and match colors in every way in my life. my favorite color was blue and now with a little bit difference it is dark blue! blue brings peace to my life and the reason I changed it to dark blue is that it's much easier to match other colors with dark blue than blue itself. phycologists have figured out interesting relationships between colors and people's perspective, which I believe they can be true. however, the meaning of a color is not necessarily because of the color itself, it's related to once culture, and how we think of different colors. In Iran like most other countries red is known for love as we know in valentine's day red is the significant color, blue is the calmness, green is recently using for peace especially in politic, black for losing a family and sadness, and so many other meanings. In Iran it is not okay to give your lover yellow flowers. yellow is more likely suitable for a sick grandma in hospital! It's amazing how we create such meanings to colors, and adopt it in our lives. colors are speaking to us with their own language.


it was the first time I actually walked to go to a place to see colors! It was interesting and simple! I was amazed with the calmness of the rooms, and how basic colors that we tend to ignore in daily life is getting so interesting all the sudden! I loved the monitor with color charts and how simple one color was changing to another, without really noticing the change green became yellow and yellow was white the next second, like they meant to be one! I wondered about the truth behind each color and how people can change color as well as the charts without me noticing! My shadow was excited too! It was the first time I was paying attention to it, and she was feeling beautiful and colorful instead of being  black and boring!



Monday, September 23, 2013


Architecture

To be honest I am not really interested in architecture and it doesn't mean I don’t enjoy looking at beautiful or interesting structures because I do.  However, I might not be really into the process and how did it turn the way it is today, or who made it and how! One of my favorite architecture that I grew up with is the Persian architecture, which was an architectural innovation development in 7th century. I love all the details, and colors. Sheikh Lutfollah Mosque (Farsi: Masjed-e Sheikh Lotf-ollāh) is one of the examples of architectural masterpieces in Isfahan, Iran. It took eighteen years to build this mosque. It was built by the chief architect Shaykh Bahai, during the reign of Shah Abbas I of the Safavid dynasty. A British traveler and writer named Robert Byron about his experience of visiting the mosque: I know of no finer example of the Persian Islamic genius than the interior of the dome:
The dome is inset with a network of lemon-shaped compartments, which decrease in size as they ascend towards the formalised peacock at the apex... The mihrāb in the west wall is enamelled with tiny flowers on a deep blue meadow. Each part of the design, each plane, each repetition, each separate branch or blossom has its own sombre beauty. But the beauty of the whole comes as you move. Again, the highlights are broken by the play of glazed and unglazed surfaces; so that with every step they rearrange themselves in countless shining patterns... I have never encountered splendour of this kind before.

The high domes and beautiful colors invite every visitors to a deep hush, and make them think about the story behind every single tile.


Thank you
Hasti

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

hello

hello everyone! I missed the last class, but am so excited for next:)
Hasti