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Haseeb Ahmed ‐ Earth Water Sky Residency, Science Gallery Venice
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The black plague killed nearly 25 million people throughout Europe in the mid-14th century. [read more]

30 Mar

The face of the wind appears in architectural ornament around the world, particularly on facades. [read more]

23 Mar

How can we breath the air we share? [read more]

16 Mar

While looking at turbulence patterns in a wind tunnel, I recognized that one in particular took the form of a face; the face of the wind. [read more]

09 Mar

Aristotle considered light to descend from the sun to the earth and reflected back off of it to the media layer which demons inhabited. [read more]

02 Mar

The Acqua Alta flooding of Venice each year is inaugurated by the Scirocco wind.

23 Feb

It is possible that the Island was selected as a quarantine site due to its situation in relationship to wind currents. [read more]

16 Feb

This drawing is an attempt to internalize the Aristotelian conception of the cosmos. [read more]

09 Feb

A diagram depicting the vortical formation and dissemination of the Sirocco wind in North Africa, across the Mediterranean, to Europe. [read more]

02 Feb

Saharan Dust is transported North to Italy by the Scirocco wind over the Atlantic. [read more]

02 Feb

The Villa Aeolia is a building that is the clearest manifestation of the renaissance concept of Pneumatology. [read more]

29 Jan

The Saharan Dust blows north into Europe, including Venice and West across the Atlantic as well where it is known as Saharan Atmospheric Layer. [read more]

28 Jan

Annotation: Patterns can repeat infinitely so they may be thought of as static and unchanging. However rotational geometries can set these expanses into motion. I reconstructed one such pattern from the Alhambra Palace in Grenada, Spain. [read more]

28 Jan

While I was on the Greek Cyclades island of Amorgos, Saharan Dust carried over the Mediteranean by the Meltemi winds made for an exceptional sunset. [read more]

28 Jan

Striving towards a more inclusive society, Germany has named their new meteorology system Ahmet. I am often looking for the confluence of weather and politics. [read more]

27 Jan

Saharan Dust is transported North to Italy by the Scirocco wind over the Atlantic. [read more]

26 Jan

The Saharan dust carried by Scirocco winds bring “Blood Rain” to Europe. Other winds carry this dust to other parts of the world. [read more]

25 Jan

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