Before we set out on this trip one of the things we were looking the most forward to was soaking our eyes in the visual patterns of other cultures. We knew very well that living in France gave us access to some of the finest museums in the world and that an exhibit of Oriental art was never more than a metro ticket away. But by travelling, the world would become our museum and instead of having art under a glass, we would be surrounded by the motifs of different cultures and that their ways of life; their rhythms and rhymes would be so omnipresent that we would become part of them. They would be part of us.



Marie-Do has created a beautiful visiting card for us in which she has managed to create a sensitive and aesthetic blend of what we have seen by placing a Moslem and a Buddhist design side by side. Every time I look at that card I am astounded to realise that we have seen these things, breathed these things. On the way, she has dedicated herself to photographing and documenting different art forms.



We invite you to travel with us once again. This time it is not a chronicle of our adventures or mishaps, chance meetings or life-saving friendships. This is a chronicle of beauty, of grace and of ever-present enchantment. To get a larger view, you might want to go back and click on the Islamic Art rubric in Iran.