I was amazed when I found out that there are many beautiful artworks hidden in the barks of trees, waiting for me to discover them... Another somewhat funny thing about my art of photo-painting is the Persian name I have made up for this peculiar art. Since of the two stages of the artistic creation, the first is “photography”, in Persian “akkaassi”, (ع کاسی ), and the second, the more creative stage, is “painting”, in Persian “naghghaashi”, (نق اشی ), then the child of the marriage between these two arts, can be called “akkaashi”, (ع کاشی ), that is “photopainting”.
~Mahmud Kianush
Mahmud created many akkaashi images, primarily based on photographs of bark, with some arising from planks and from bricks.
Bark:
Plank:
Brick:
top photo by Katy Kianush May 2014
subsequent images by Mahmud Kianush
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