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Circumvolution: A turning or winding movement around a central axis.
Circumvolute: Wind or turn in volutions, 🐌 circum is root for circle and volute stands for twist. So, the word becomes twist in a circle.

Volute (volvere, to roll) is the root for evolution and revolution. Everything is flowing in spirals, we must keep on moving, making and turning like dervishes.
Plaster carved demo by @adamwilliamsonart here at @szgmc_ae where we have just finished a 2-day master class. #
If you'd like to learn this art, we have upcoming classes scheduled in London, Toronto, DC, Dallas and more to come. DM for details.
Also more UAE 🇦🇪 classes in the next few months with @baytalqindeel

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Pierced plaster carving by @adamwilliamsonart

The pattern is from a Jaali screen in Humayyan's Tomb, Delhi, India. Variations also appear in the Tomb of Akbar, Agra and in Qait Bey, Cario.
There's an opportunity to join a 2-day plaster carving masterclass with Adam next week in Abu Dhabi.

https://www.szgmc.gov.ae/en/Ewan

Or London the first week of February
https://www.psta.org.uk/open-programme/plaster-carving-4

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Painting by our tutor @adamwilliamsonart
Enamel 1shot paint, Mack pinstriping typhoon brush on plywood penny skateboard.

He will be teaching signwriting brush skills on Skateboards for 14-18 year olds in the summer with @thecreativedimension DM for details.

Will are also finalising our Canada/US tour in July 2020, Toronto and DC are on the website and it’s already filling up! Dallas, NYC and Seattle hopefully confirmed soon.

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Patterns by @jeeamirza & @r.k.h.arts taught by our tutor @richardhenryart on the current Geometry Masterclass exploring 5/10-Fold symmetry in our London studios.
Check out the website for all the upcoming course and trips 🌎

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Zelij workshop here in Brazil. What a lovely group with smiles as colourful as the mosaics.
If you'd like to make some ceramic tiles with us in London or Fez, Morocco. DM us or check the website for details.

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Surpreendente week here in Brazil with @halkafinearts. Carving, folding, drawing and assembling Islamic patterns from around the world!
DM if you'd like to learn plaster carving, next sessions in London are in January 2020

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London weekly Saturday classes starting again this weekend, register on the website in the bio.
This video shows the construction of moorish pattern in the previous post.

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Illuminating week teaching in the UAE, we hope to be back in Jan 2020 for more classes. DM us for info. Next week simultaneous courses in Brazil 🇧🇷 and Saudi 🇸🇦

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Pencil drawing by @inesarosteguiartes on our last Granada Study trip!
Next week will be drawing patterns like these in Abu Dhabi and Dubai, so get in touch if you’d like to join us.

Pattern analysis @adamwilliamsonart
#granada #geometry #plaster #stucco #courtoflions #sacredgeometry #geometry #drawing #class #chisels #sacredgeometry #pattern #geometricpattern #islamicart #adamwilliamsonart #adamwilliamson #sacredgeometry #geometry #drawing #pattern #geometricpattern #artofislamicpattern #islamicpattern #arabesque #rumi #biomorphic #islimi #pattern #ceiling #mosque #mandalaart #mandala_universe #mandaladesign #travel #interiordecoration #pencildrawing

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We coil & curve, twist & twirl, warp & weft, knit & knot, intertwine & interlace. We interweave & we are interwoven, that is nature, the fabric of life.

Plaster carvings by our tutor @adamwilliamsonart
He will be teaching plaster carving throughout November in the following cities:

Abu Dhabi, 3 – 7 Nov
Dubai, 10 Nov
Florianópolis Brazil, 22 Nov
London, Saturday's from 23 Nov

Visit our website to register, link in the bio 💫 #plastercarving #mosaic #sacredgeometry #geometry #chisels #geometricpattern #plaster #islamicart #drawing #artofislamicpattern #islamicpattern #arabesque #biomorphic #pattern #adamwilliamson #adamwilliamsonart #mosque #mandalaart #mandala_universe #mandaladesign

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As Rumi said ‘Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there’. So give that daily regime the slip and join us for a week in an alternative realm where we can immerse ourselves in meditative pattern and absorb the ancient wisdom of bygone craftsmen.

This was the vibe in the Bou Inania madrasa last week. We will be back in Morocco next April for a couple of courses.

We will also be in Abu Dhabi and Dubai next month 3-10th November.

#morocco #geometry #mosaic #sacredgeometry #geometry #drawing #class #chisels #sacredgeometry #pattern #geometricpattern #ceramic #islamicart #sacredgeometry #geometry #drawing #pattern #geometricpattern #artofislamicpattern #islamicpattern #arabesque #rumi #biomorphic #islimi #pattern #ceiling #mosque #mandalaart #mandala_universe #mandaladesign #travel @baytalqindeel #fez #bouiania

Instagram post 2146586535053685633_366210289 $Flowing with the patterns at the end of a fractal winding alley, in the heart of the ancient leaf shaped Fez medina. This 10fold pattern is from the Bou Inania Madrasa (1356). It was taught by @richardhenryart in yesterday’s class here in Fez. Next Marrakech course, 13th-17th April 2020 Next Fez course, 20th - 24th April 2020 #morocco #geometry #mosaic #sacredgeometry #geometry #drawing #class #chisels #sacredgeometry #pattern #geometricpattern #ceramic #islamicart #sacredgeometry #geometry #drawing #pattern #geometricpattern #artofislamicpattern #islamicpattern #arabesque #rumi #biomorphic #islimi #pattern #ceiling #mosque #mandalaart #mandala_universe #mandaladesign #travel$

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Light
Will someday split you open
Even if your life is now a cage,
For a divine seed, the crown of destiny,
Is hidden and sown on an ancient, fertile plain
You hold the title to.
Love will surely bust you wide open
Into an unfettered, blooming new galaxy
Even if your mind is now
A spoiled mule.
A life-giving radiance will come,
The Friend’s gratuity will come —
O look again within yourself,
For I know you were once the elegant host
To all the marvels in creation.
From a sacred crevice in your body
A bow rises each night
And shoots your soul into God.
Behold the Beautiful Drunk Singing One
From the lunar vantage point of love.
He is conducting the affairs
Of the whole universe
While throwing wild parties
In a tree house – on a limb
In your heart. - Hafiz

Golden hour up on @DarSeffarine terrace preparing material for this week’s geometry & arabesque course. We feel blessed to be commencing this course alongside the new moon rising.

Everyone is welcome to join us in Morocco next Spring. Our courses are open to all abilities, we accept participants from around the 🌍 and from every background, all sharing a love for pattern and adventure.

#morocco #geometry #sacredgeometry #adamwilliamson #drawing #class #sacredgeometry #pattern #geometricpattern #islamicart #sacredgeometry #geometry #drawing #pattern #geometricpattern #artofislamicpattern #islamicpattern #arabesque #rumi #biomorphic #islimi #pattern #mandalaart #mandala_universe #mandaladesign #travel #goldenhour #hafiz #persianpoetry #fez

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Quilting and Quilling
Darj-w-ktaf Pattern
We are privileged to have a multitude of talented artists join our trips & courses and its always a pleasure to watch the course patterns reproduced in their craft.
These two stunning examples are inspired by the ‘step and shoulder pattern’ taught on our last Marrakech course.
Tighe Flanagan @tigheflanagan is an established Quilter and Archana Kumar @thetealcup specialises in paper quilling.

We are about to embark on a few weeks in the Maghreb, we the Granada and Córdoba trips are closed but there is space on the Fez trip 30th September - 4th of October 2019 so come join us!

#mosaic #islamicart #sacredgeometry #geometry #drawing #pattern #geometricpattern #artofislamicpattern #islamicpattern #arabesque #rumi #biomorphic #islimi #pattern #ceiling #mosque #mandalaart #mandala_universe #mandaladesign #fez #morocco #Marrakech #travel

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Geometric Wood Marquetry course, London 3 Saturday afternoons, 18, 25 Jan & 1 Feb 2020.

Wood is a fundamental material used in Islamic art from the stunning Nasrid carved eaves to Ottoman kundekari joinery.
Many ancient cultures believe that nature’s spiralling growth and vital force is evident in the grain of wood. Tree roots or the vortices flowing through wood burrs hold particularly strong semangat (Malay for vital force). The stronger the spirit the more lustrous and flamboyant the grain.

When you slice against the grain wood splits and you loose control. Like all crafts the only way to make materials yield to the tools is to ask respectfully, collaborate and merge with the motions of nature.
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One Swaying Being

Love is not condescension, never that,
nor books, nor any marking on paper,
nor what people say of each other.
Love is a tree with branches reaching into eternity
and roots set deep in eternity, and no trunk!
Have you seen it?
The mind cannot.
Your desiring cannot.
The longing you feel for this love comes from inside you.
When you become the Friend,
your longing will be as the man in the ocean
who holds to a piece of wood.
Eventually wood, man, and ocean
become one swaying being,
Shams Tabriz, the secret of God.
Rumi

#marquetry #wood #woodwork #woodgrain #oak #ash #rosewood #hardwood #woodgrain #oilingwood #poetry #rumi #spirit
#mosaic #islamicart #sacredgeometry #geometry #drawing #pattern #geometricpattern #artofislamicpattern #islamicpattern #arabesque #pattern #ceiling #mosque #man

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‘Know oh brother that the study of sensible geometry leads to skill in all practical arts while the study of intelligible geometry leads to skill in the intellectual arts because this science is one of the gates through which we move to the knowledge of the essence of the soul and that is the root of knowledge.’ Ikhwān Al-Ṣafā
The Brethren of Purity إخوان‌ الصفا‎, A secret society of philosophers in Basra, Iraq, in the 8th - 10th century CE.

Rasail of Ikhwan el Safa were fundamental in the transfer of platonic thought to the Islamic world.

#mosaic #islamicart #sacredgeometry #geometry #drawing #pattern #geometricpattern #womb #ceramic #artofislamicpattern #islamicpattern #arabesque #rumi #biomorphic #islimi #pattern #ceiling #mosque #mandalaart #mandala_universe #mandaladesign #painting #persia #isfahan #safavid #shamsah #mandala #dome #cupola #abjad

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