Boing Boing (boingboing) wrote, @ 2017-08-22 14:53:00 |
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http://boingboing.net/2017/08/22/ali-ala
http://boingboing.net/?p=542612
Enjoy this video of an Iraqi artist's intricate and realistic dioramas, depicting city scenes from around the world, crafted in exile: "When I tried to make a tiny bellows for the old camera, it had to be very very small. Each fold less than a millimeter thick, and I needed about 124 folds."
It's presented by Veena Rao at The New York Times.
Mr. Alamedy was born in Karbala, Iraq, in 1982, during the Iraq-Iran war. At the time, his father was imprisoned under Saddam Hussein for political reasons, and Mr. Alamedy wasnt able to meet him until he was 9 years old. His mother taught him to read at a young age and reading quickly became his favorite hobby, as well as a way to escape to calmer and more secure places. Mr. Alamedy credits the novels he read as a primary reason he started building miniatures, to recreate some of those scenes just as I had imagined them to be in my childhood.