Shattered Poems #66 Painting

The painting is inspired by Persian poetry and reinterpreted as a visual language. Shattered Poems #66 is the letter "Yey" or Y enlarged, repeated, and falling on a textural background including multiple layers of poems by Hafez, the 14th-century Persian poet. Approximately 30 poems are placed on top of one another and printed on the canvas with the traditional columns used for poetry. This eligible structure gives the poems a more visual presence as well as convey the sense of displacement in the narrative of the series. The larger letters Y, painted with acrylic are repeated, interacting together using the curves, rotations and placement to form a bond or a sense of calm in the chaos. Shattered Poems is a narrative on displacement, loss, and identity by creating a dynamic gestural vocabulary drawn from the Farsi alphabet and poetry. Emphasis is placed on the alphabet’s sculptural shapes. Its curves, lines, and forms became the base of a new visual language. These gestural variations on multi-layered painted canvases communicate in rhythm, repetition, scale, and movement. More than representing sound, in this series, alphabets become the beat to reveal the human sentiment of love, loss, fear, joy, and empathy. Shattered Poems are an intersection of past and present, transformation and hope, art and culture, and an individual depiction of a universal sentiment.

Painting:Acrylic on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:44 W x 55 H x 1 D in

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