Hezar Minar

One Thousand Minarets- An artistic inquiry

In progress

In collaboration with Sonia Ashoor - SACD

We proposes to creation of a tableware, where the Persians, the Gourkani, the Safavid and the Ottamam empire, the Indians and the Turks, would meet to celebrate a world of unity, peace and prosperity, as imagined by Jahanara, the eldest daughter of Shah Jahan, in the seventeenth century. Jahanara had aspirations of becoming a magnificent builder like her father, Shahjahan, as she wanted to build a “Hezar Minar, a palace holding a thousand minarets”.

The patterns of the pottery are borrowed from Samanid epigraphic pottery, produced in eastern Iran and Central Asia between the ninth and eleventh centuries.