Mohr-e Mehr ( The Seal of Melancholy)

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I feel duality in my life, I feel a dichotomy in my soul, I feel chronic pain spreading into my body, which incrementally displaces me as an independent person. It interconnects me to the land which I carry in my heart. It interconnects me with the smell, and tactility of soil, where my memories are rooted in. This poem's interconnection defines my life, rearticulates my days and nights, and motivates my art. My research is strongly connected with what is happening in the land connected to my identity, the Middle East. I convey my lived experience, critically observing the different government’s oppressive state reflecting my unsettledness in that land. Mirrors play a symbolic narrative in my work that conveys the repetitive divisive of pain and distortion within me within infinity reflections Also, it helps audiences from other parts of the world feel themselves in the space and make a connection to it because social-political issues are not limited to a specific geographical area or to a specific time in history. Patterns echo my cultural narratives that question and situate my identity in Canada. Along with floral patterns inspired by Persian rugs, mirrors, and bluish shades of colors are inspired by Islamic classic Persian architecture. The calligraphy of Farsi poems conveys my mystical point of view, coming from the mystical Sufism beliefs that empower me in crucial situations in life.

Where it's been: Gradex exhibition-OCAD U, Toronto 1313 Gallery, Toronto Central Gallery, Toronto