FOTOSEPTIEMBRE USA 2010 Exhibition Documentation : Ramin Samandari : Veils Of Nephele : Southwest School of Art – Ursuline Hall Gallery
FOTOSEPTIEMBRE USA 2010 Exhibition Documentation at the Southwest School Of Art, Ursuline Hall Gallery
Ramin Samandari : Veils Of Nephele
Curated by Kathy Armstrong.
Ramin Samandari, featured photographer.
Veils of Nephele (In Greek mythology, Nephele is the cloud nymph).
One of the most vivid memories I have of my childhood in Iran is of the summer nights when we used to sleep outside on the rooftop.
I remember lying there on my bed, covered by mosquito netting, watching the sky. Looking up at the night sky full of stars and planets was fun but my favorite times were when there were clouds present. How they moved about the sky so freely, changing shapes at will.
The images in this exhibit are remnants of my childhood memories, even though these clouds have been photographed in the past two years, some forty years since those summer nights.
In this series, I have combined photographs of clouds with my long-time interest in Taoism by using snippets of Lao-Tze’s writings around the edges of some of the images and into the titles.
The images are printed using archival pigment inks on acid-free Museo paper.
Ramin Samandari
September 2010
Veils of Nephele (In Greek mythology, Nephele is the cloud nymph). One of the most vivid memories I have of my childhood in Iran is of the summer nights when we used to sleep outside on the rooftop. I remember lying there on my bed, covered by mosquito netting, watching the sky. Looking up at the night sky full of stars and planets was fun but my favorite times were when there were clouds present. How they moved about the sky so freely, changing shapes at will. The images in this exhibit are remnants of my childhood memories, even though these clouds have been photographed in the past two years, some forty years since those summer nights. In this series, I have combined photographs of clouds with my long-time interest in Taoism by using snippets of Lao-Tze’s writings around the edges of some of the images and into the titles.
Ramin Samandari, September 2010.
Ramin Samandari, September 2010.
Views of Ramin Samandari’s exhibit Veils Of Nephele, at the Southwest School of Art, Ursuline Hall Gallery.
Rainey and her Bees.
Paula Owen, Ramin Samandari, and Deborah Keller-Rihn.
Thank you for the posting Michael.
Stunning, stunning work. I heard rave reviews from numerous friends. I would have been there if were physically able! . . . RAMIN, YOU ARE A MASTER, A GENIUS!
And . . . thank you so much, for posting this blog. I have a greater sense of the images now, and the rich collection.