Divison, the warmth that I couldn’t keep and the cold that I can’t
stand. This work talks about division, two intertwined worlds created
through migration.
The most important symbol of every Iranian’s life is Iranian motifs.
Iranian motifs are a sign of my whole life as an Iranian, which inspires
warmth for me, the warmth of my mother’s arms, home, and homeland,
and I grew up with them. So I decided to create a new style,
inspired by different Iranian carpets. I designed and painted new
motifs. The role of metal is my second life after immigration, the
coldness that I always feel away from my homeland and family. So I
chose this material to induce a feeling of cold.
I created a circle in the centre of the work to show all my memories
of the homeland, which are always with me forever, but from the
window of the plane when I left the homeland. The images that
passed before my eyes when I left the country. Persian calligraphy
on the four sides of the motifs represents the native language.
The subtitle of the video is a famous poem by the famous Iranian
poet Sohrab Sepehri, the meaning of which gives me hope for life,
that I can understand that in this cold post-immigration, life flows
wherever we are.