Iran Triptych, 2014

The IRAN Triptych is a record of the experience of a culture in which history, poetry, spirituality and everyday life interpenetrate to form a multilayered reality.

Bright, almost hushed fields of the painting are cut by vertical streaks, traces of running paint and clusters of intense colour. The composition unfolds between presence and disappearance, revealing and concealing. Fragments of colour evoke traces of architecture, script and memory, yet never settle into an unambiguous sign.

Each of the three parts holds its own tension while contributing to a shared rhythm. The triptych becomes an attempt to capture a culture not through its image, but through what remains after an encounter with it: light, pulse, layers of memory and the sense of the past being continuously present.