Ergative AbsolutiveStarted a new construction last night.
'This can't possibly be as difficult as the previous one,' I thought smugly.
'This one's much simpler! It's just some rosettes and decagons!' I continued, confidently.
Guess how it's been going.
NBEntrance-ing 🪄 for #doorsday
Another Islamic/North African/Al-Andalus inspired door from Rocchetta Mattei!
Something you may not know about this place is that Cesare Mattei had developed a type of "Electro-Homeopathy" and supposedly was able to cure the "incurable". Allegedly the recipies died with him... Or did they?
(I don't know, I don't have them at least) ✨
#photography #amateurphotography #door #doorphotography #rocchettamattei #stone #statues #architecture #islamicart #islamicarchitecture #building #urbanarchitecture #history #spring #pattern #castle #art #tower #rioladivergato #unusual #stonework #arch #atmospheric #italy #europe #travel #explore
Another Islamic/North African/Al-Andalus inspired door from Rocchetta Mattei!
Something you may not know about this place is that Cesare Mattei had developed a type of "Electro-Homeopathy" and supposedly was able to cure the "incurable". Allegedly the recipies died with him... Or did they?
(I don't know, I don't have them at least) ✨
#photography #amateurphotography #door #doorphotography #rocchettamattei #stone #statues #architecture #islamicart #islamicarchitecture #building #urbanarchitecture #history #spring #pattern #castle #art #tower #rioladivergato #unusual #stonework #arch #atmospheric #italy #europe #travel #explore
TajraWDFun radial tiling I've been working on. Trying to build up how many lines of symmetry I'm capable of aligning with traditional Islamic geometric patterns
#islamicart #islamicgeometricpatterns #art #geometric #adobeillustrator
The completed pattern, now painted. THis is Pattern 99 from volume 3 of from Serap Ekizler Sönmez's 3-volume masterpiece, 'The Geometric Language of Anatolian Seljuk Art' (Anadolu Selçuklu Sanatının Geometrik Dili)
I do not speak or read Turkish, but the diagrams are excellent*, and an OCR app + Google Translate gets me the rest of the way there.
*except the 'Draw the rest of the owl' bits: https://wandering.shop/@ergative/116416351813082182)
#IslamicGeometricArt #IslamicArt #humanArt #artistsOfMastodon
"One does not simply walk in through Moor-Door" 🚪 for #doorsday
Actually you can walk through it - if you've booked in advance 😂.
This is the main entrance into La Rocchetta Mattei. The building is inspired by the Islamic North African/Al-Andalus architecture - also known as Moorish architecture (hence the bad pun 😂).
It's a very beautiful and unusual building! ✨
#photography #amateurphotography #door #doorphotography #rocchettamattei #stone #statue #architecture #islamicart #islamicarchitecture #building #urbanarchitecture #history #spring #pattern #castle #art #tower #rioladivergato #unusual #stonework #arch #atmospheric #italy #europe #travel #explore
Actually you can walk through it - if you've booked in advance 😂.
This is the main entrance into La Rocchetta Mattei. The building is inspired by the Islamic North African/Al-Andalus architecture - also known as Moorish architecture (hence the bad pun 😂).
It's a very beautiful and unusual building! ✨
#photography #amateurphotography #door #doorphotography #rocchettamattei #stone #statue #architecture #islamicart #islamicarchitecture #building #urbanarchitecture #history #spring #pattern #castle #art #tower #rioladivergato #unusual #stonework #arch #atmospheric #italy #europe #travel #explore
Another pretty large zellij mosaic with a big fat 24-pointed star pattern at its centre. Pretty radial.
#maths #geometric #islamicart #adobeillustrator #islamicgeometricpatterns
Some other stills of the Icosahedron I did today
Icosahedron with perfect Islamic geometric symmetry. Trying to make use of colours that make the work pop instead of resorting to black/white or wood-based colours.
#islamicgeometricpatterns #islamicart #geometric #3D #illustrator #polyhedra
Rapid speedpaint of an Ottoman-style geometry found across Syrian mosques.
#islamicart #graphicdesign #adobeillustrator #vectorart #maths #speedpaint #geometry
Some of my favourite laser engraved paper prototypes that helped me imagine and realise my final pieces!
#laserengraving #islamicgeometricdesign #islamicgeometricpatterns #islamicart #lightburn #lightburnsoftware #vectordesign
