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Photos by Yaser Khadishi, ISNA
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Darvish Khan (photo by Ahmad Nadalian) |
Payvand.com - Darvish Khan's Stone Garden is located about 45
kilometers from the city of Sirjan in Iran's Kerman province. The garden was
created almost 4 decades ago by the late Darvish Khan Esfandiarpoor,
a deaf and dumb gardener,
upon losing his treasured garden.
Darvish Khan lived in the garden, with his only son and 7 grandchildren, till
his death.
Sirjan
is a city in South of Iran, in
Kerman
Province. At 1730 m, it is situated in a depression
between the southern Zagros mountains to the west and
the Kuh-e Bidkhan massif to the east. It is well known
for its pistachios and "geleem" rugs.
Kerman is one
of the 30 provinces of Iran. It is in the south-east of the country. Its
center is Kerman. The province of Kerman is the second largest province
in Iran, 180,836 km sqr with a population of about 2
million. |
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A note on Darvish Khan and his garden
By Atousa Taghavi, April 2007Last
month when I visited Darvish khan and his stone garden in a village
called Balvard, I was very excited to see him who was an old
deaf-and-dumb shepherd and also his abstract artworks which were a sign
of his great imagination. His eagerness to show his works and
explain about them-although to establish communication with him
was not easy- could interest any visitor.
The trunks and branches of dry trees were the basis of his stone garden
and on these trees; he used to connect different shapes of stones to any
other objects or even dead animals he might find where he was living. He
had a description for each of those decorated trees and by nodding
-specially to the sky and then to
his artworks- he was trying to share his thoughts and imaginations.
Unfortunately I heard of his death last week and decided to introduce
him and his stone garden.
See Atousa Taghavi's photos of Darvish
Khan's Rock Garden on
trekearth.com |
Darvish Khan (photo by Atousa Taghavi)
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