In the name of Creator of beauties

My name is Ali Asghar Mortezaee. I was born in 1967 in Iran. I educated in my hometown_Hamedan_ and then finished my graduation in the field of English literature in Shiraz University in 1991.Gazing at wood carvers' works, as a young boy, I often thought of innovating something new to reflect my sense of beauties, feelings, interests, and believes. Eventually the idea of creating Quranic tableaux out of wood came to my mind. As you may have noticed one of the manifestations of beauty that sometimes is very fascinating and charming is the design and decoration of wood. This, along with the fact that the tenderness of flowers and leaves; the falling and raising of stems are appeared in the most beautiful style of Persian calligraphy (Nastaligh) formed the motive to combine four arts of calligraphy, wood carving, illumination, reticulation; and associate Quranic verses with Arabesque. These are the main arts which have been used in carpet weaving, plaster moulding, stonecutting, furniture, metalworking, ceramics, glass and glass wares, cloth-weaving, etc from the old ages till now.
In the present collection which is the result of 7 years of hard task, I made my best to choose the most beautiful calligraphies of the great and famous Iranian calligraphers such as Mr. Gholam Hossein Amirkhani, Mr. Yadollah Kaboli Kansari, Mr. Jalil Rasuli, Mr. Hashem Baghdadi, and late Mr. Mohammad Ali Atar Heravi. In addition to the perfect styles, varieties, and the eye pleasing calligraphies, the most outstanding and unique aspect in my works is that in each tableau form the frame to Arabesque and from Arabesque to every letter are carved just from one single wooden plank. That is, no part is stuck to the others.
At the end, I would like to express my gratitude to the above mentioned calligraphers and those dear ones who helped me .