Somayeh Gholami bardeji
Somayeh Gholami Bardeji was born in Shiraz, Iran, in 1981, based in
Lisbon. She holds a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the University
of Coimbra in 2013. Besides being a scientist, her big passion is
Persian Calligraphy-Painting's art. Somayeh was active in the Persian
Calligraphy community in Iran through her membership of the Society of
Iranian Calligraphers in 2004. She is working on a primary Kufic and
Shekasteh Nastaliq and got a master's degree in Naskh, Nastaliq, and
Ketabat from the Society of Iranian Calligraphers in 2006.
Presented artwork is inspired by primary Kufic calligraphy. The
white part resembles the blackboard and chalks where you could see
part of the Ph.D. dissertation of Somayeh. Moreover, the white
part represents the nerve-wracking resulting from solving complex
mathematical equations and scratching what you thought might be
right. The artwork sketches two universes that Somayeh lives in
calligraphic painting and Mathematics. To control the font size
and make the figures homogenous, Somayeh has designed each figure
with two parallel pencils separately in a harmonic manner. The
depth is a result of utilizing different sizes of fonts. The
artwork is an impromptu performance of mind and hand.