Fucking Techno in Farsi Painting

Downtown Tehran, post nose job, a de rigueur procedure for the Persian social set, isn't when you'd expect to stumble across a park where anyone can be gay, only in secret, but still in public. Furtive glances and stolen kisses are hidden from view by tree cover and take on the complexion of rebellion. Subversive intimacy clashes with the humdrum of daily life in the form of a perspex cutting workshop that looks across from an alley onto the park. Iran retains Articles 234, 236, 237 and 238-40 of the Penal Code 2013, wherein homosexuality is established as illegal and punishable with death for men and 100 lashes for women. What better to way to celebrate Tehranian lust-fuelled defiance than by commissioning an illegal word for my immortal love, the Melbourne techno scene.