The Nourishing River
| Description: |
Edition of 5. The centerpiece of this etching is a traditional kettle integrated with a heart. This particular kettle is widely used in Middle Eastern tea houses. The teahouse in the booksellers street is a meeting point of all the thinkers, writers and people with no title, but who care for their history and culture. The kettle and heart are boiling together. They are on fire. The fire from the heart and kettle is the fire of their passion, of a nations patience. The people are protected by the glasses floating in the drink that is overflowing from their suffering. The kettle rests on a round stage that refers to the ancient round city of Baghdad, which was surrounded by four gates. At the very top is a separate glass and saucer, which is the beginning of a river that is flowing down into the city. That river is the Tigris, a rich, natural resource that gathered a civilization to the land around it for thousands of years. Tigris means a river that constantly moving at high speed. This word, orig |
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| Origin: | 2014 |
| Created By: |
Moghaddas, Golbanou |
| Contributor(s): |
Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Coalition |
| Publisher: |
(San Francisco, CA USA and Tehran, Iran) |
| Source: |
http://iuidigital.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/AMSSH/id/1331 |
| Collection: |
Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Coalition Collection |
| Rights: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
| Copyright: |
In Copyright |
| Subjects: |
artists book art bookworks prints |
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