Installation
Caged
While working on the “Iranian Gardens” project, I couldn’t help picturing some of these forms lying in ruin and captivity, as if they were denied the chance to grow and multiply, as if all they could do was to witness growth and movement, of which they themselves had no share.
Thorn Field
It all started from a visit to a flower market, nothing out of the ordinary really, until...
Until I saw some thorn bushes lying in a corner, and that started images rushing to my mind: thorns in the sand, a whole field of them...
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In a rectangular area, symbolising a mass grave, amidst a pile of dust and rubble, lie a thousand human heads of an abstract design.
Of these forms which range in colour from grey and cream to red, about 600 are glazed and the rest are not.
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My “Fish” impart a feeling halfway between life and death, and, depending on where and how they are installed, may resemble either. Arranged in water, they can be taken as a symbol of life and reawakening. Against a parched gloomy background, they may denote death and doom. And, installed in a dark pool of tar, they can be a protest against the destruction of our natural environment.
Growth (Persian Garden)
“Growth” is a symbolic work, a very abstract representation of a Persian garden, which both from the conceptual and the arrangement point of view, exhibits the juxtaposition of unity and plurality, a concept that is very close to the heart of Iranian art and culture.