Nima Nezafati

[Nima Nezafati @nimanezafati]

پاییز هرچه بتازد، بر این دیوار کهن هنوز جایی برای عشق هست.🍁💕🍁
However fiercely autumn may rage, there is still room for love on this ancient wall.🍁💕🍁

[Nima Nezafati @nimanezafati]

The Royal Seat of the Pen
A simple wooden pen case, given a new attire through colour, pattern, fabric, and ornamentation—an interplay of colours and a spirit inspired by Persian decorative traditions.A new handmade creation, in my own way; a one-of-a-kind piece with no second.

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Me, surrounded by the colours and patterns of my handmade creations! 😊😄
I shared a photo of myself and some photos of my craftwork with ChatGPT, and the result of our collaboration is the colourful image you see here. 😊🎨😃

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A small gathering of my decorated eggs — little worlds of color, ornament, and imagination. ✨

دورهمی کوچکی از تخم‌مرغ‌های تزئینی من؛ جهان‌های کوچکی از رنگ، نقش و خیال. ✨

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First summer beside you! 🥰

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Vernal Bloom is a piece I created around an original, hand-drawn floral motif inspired by Persian decorative traditions.
Combining drawing with patterned-paper collage, the work reflects the colour, vitality, and renewal of spring.

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A Flame of Love
A hand-drawn composition of my own design, bringing together the forms of a seed, a flower, a flame, and a subtly hidden face.
Together with the Persian phrase, “Sow a seed of love in the soil of your heart,” it reflects love, inner growth, and imagination.

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A Little Garden of Flowers
A hand-cut paper collage based on an adapted central motif & border elements inspired by various decorative designs.
I cut the forms from paper in three colours and assembled them by hand on a blue background, an exercise in colour, rhythm & patience.

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Bochum’s Institute of Archaeological Studies has its own football team, Hybris, competing annually in the Winckelmann Cup. For their anniversary guestbook, I drew this footballer, inspired by a little figure the late Prof. G. Weisgerber used in his correspondence and publications

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Geese at work!

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A pigeon with a ring of bread around its neck flew up and landed on top of the C&A sign! It looks like the pigeon is posing in front of the clothing store with a fashionable accessory. 😁🥰

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Dressed to kill ! 🥰

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What Are You Looking For?

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Our museum recently launched a creative initiative inviting staff to share how they see the German MiningMuseum Bochum, Leibniz Research Museum for Georesources, and their role within it. Here’s my contribution:a quick sketch to give visual form to my idea:Georesources connect!

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I recently made some changes to one of the wooden eggs I had previously decorated, and I also decorated a wooden stand for it. I call this ensemble “Chalice of the Seven Realms”! 😊

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The artwork shown here is one of my most recent creations. It was inspired by the famous Sasanian "Khosrow Cup", although it is by no means a replica. Instead, it is my own interpretation of that remarkable work of art.

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A few photos of mostly Iranian dishes I've cooked over the years 😊
و چند تصویری از غذاهای ایرانی که پیش از این پخته ام😊

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فکر کردم مجموعه ای از چند نمونه از کاردستی هایم را در کنار هم اینجا هم به اشتراک بگذارم😊. بعضی از کارهای دیگرم در وبگاه دانش‌آموختگان دانشگاه توبینگن:
https://t.co/ycQRICE4iH

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Butterfly on butterfly-bush

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A leftover from Nowruz!
Almost every year, if in the mood, I make one or two decorative eggs around Nowruz, the Iranian New Year. This year, with the war and everything else going on,I neither had the chance nor the motivation.Recently,though, I felt the urge to make one again 😊