Still Moving Image

14 x 14  x 26 inches

Mixed Media: Playwood, Glass, Oil Paint, Acrylic
2025

The distance between the single eye (painted on a square glass piece), the face (painted on the wall), and the view frame is designed in a way that by looking through the open frame, the single eye would gradually become two completing the face on the wall. The camera lens could not capture the human vision, so the last image was made up, in order to present the viewer’s experience.

. and i

A conscious practice of observation questions the typical experience of a landscape image perceived by the eye. While an image of the eye symbolizes the organ from outside point of view, referring to the internal experience of sight a distancing effect is required

In many languages, there is a letter called eye. For an abstract letter to bear a name referring to something in the world would reverse the fundamental semantic order, unless that name exists beyond time.

آ   (high tide)
 In Farsi, “madd” symbol is a diacritic placed over “alef” (ا) the first letter of alphabet to indicate “ā” (آ). آب  “ābb” is translated as water. 

In Semitic scripts, including Phoenician, Hebrew‎, Aramaic, Syriac, and Arabic; the letter ع has a name derived from Proto-Semitic “ayn” translated as “eye”.

Adam & Eve

Eye in Eye with the source of light

The current project embodies the artist’s odyssey, transitioning from the fleeting nature of film as a medium to the enduring essence of still imagery. It is a reverse historical path, in which the art of montage —juxtaposing pre-recorded movies in a temporal sequence—is transformed into the realm of collage — piecing together the archival images in a spatial alignment. As if the time-based medium is transmuted into the spatial one.

This artistic process echoes a journey from the temporal flow of a speech, where words emerge and vanish after another, unlike written text which presents all words in a simultaneous, spatial arrangement. In this way, the project not only explores different mediums but also delves into the contrasting natures of time and space in art, thereby weaving a narrative that transcends conventional boundaries.

Selected exhibition shots