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Alley Vase

A vase shaped by a forgotten Tehran alley: narrow, shadowed, with light that arrives only at noon.

  • RAD / 044
  • Saman Karimi
Alley Vase

From description to RAD

Four versions of one work, side by side. The distances stay visible.

  1. What they described

    Surprise allowed: Artist’s hand

    Allow meaningful reinterpretation.

    Described: Alley Vase
  2. What AI imagined

    The first image made a sculptural, symmetrical form with graphic shadows.

    Imagined: Alley Vase
  3. How the artist reinterpreted it

    I shortened the height so it would feel like the space between two walls, not a monument.

    I cut a vertical recess—the place where noon light would fall.

    Reinterpreted: Alley Vase
  4. What the material produced

    The clay kept a coarse grain on the shoulder.

    The matte glaze shadow came out deeper than the drawing.

    Material: Alley Vase
This RAD's passport

Creation-trail certificate

This mark holds the complete trail from imagination to firing.

Material batch
Clay mixed with Karaj river sand
Surface behaviour
Carbon matte, deliberately incomplete cover
Firing conditions
Oxidation, 1180°C
Visible irregularity
A horizontal hand-line remains on the body

RAD / 044 · TEHRAN / 2026 · 1 / 1

No two tracesare the same.