Clay as a Record Keeper of Iranian Cultural HeritageBy: Raheleh T. Filsoofi

Happy Persian New Year

Chogha zanbil Ziggurat, early 3rd millennium BC

Contemporary Teheran Golestan Palace, 1785 to 1925

My Story, Our Story

Goharshad Mosque Mashhad, Timurid Dynasty in 1418 CE

Making Tiles in United State

Trip to Iran 2012

Sialk Tepeh , Kashan 3000 BC

Ceramic Of Islamic World

Geometric Pattern Arabesque

Abstract Figures and animalsCalligraphy

The Blue MosqueTabriz,1465

Golestan PalaceTehran, Qajar Dyasty 1785 to 1925

Khosrow Hassanzadeh, combination of ceramic and media, displayed in the sixth Art Dubai exhibition in Dubai on March 21, 2012

Contemporary Ceramic Work

Tehran

Objects of Remembrance

• What is the impact of ceramic objects? Are ceramic fragments and tile pieces the triggers of memory?

• What are the stories that held by clay and how do we read them?

• What is the wider significance of cultural traces in clay?

• http://www.iranreview.org/content/Documents/Goharshad_Mosque_Masterpiece_of_Islamic_Architecture.htm

• http://rivertrain.blogspot.com/2011/05/mashhad-and-imam-reza-shrine.html

• http://www.panoramio.com/photo/44407352

Images of Golestan Palace, Sialk Tepeh, Marlik Tepe and Blue Mosque by Raheleh & Reza Filsoofi

References of Other Images

www.rahelehfilsoofi.com rahafilsoofi@yahoo.com

References • Arthur Pope, Persian Architecture: The Triumph of Form and Color

• Mahdi Makki Nezhad, : History of Iranian Art during the Islamic Era