I Will Greet The Sun Again
"A Visual Journey Through Time, Memory, and Belonging."
I’ve lived half of my life in Iran and half in Canada, and sometimes it feels like I belong to both places and neither. I grew up during years when the world around me felt heavy. There was a revolution, then war. I remember how early on, we all became aware of things that were too big for us, loss, fear, silence. But somehow, even in those quiet and difficult years, I started to notice beauty. Light through a curtain. The shape of a shadow. The softness of my mother’s hands. I didn’t know it then, but I was already seeing the world like an artist.
I’ve always been quiet. Not the kind to talk much in big groups. I listen more than I speak. Over time, I learned to express myself through images rather than words. That’s where I feel most honest.
I Will Greet The Sun Again is a series that came out of this way of seeing and feeling. These works explore identity, memory, and the feeling of being in between, between places, between times, between who you were and who you’re becoming. The scenes unfold in front of a window, a space that separates and connects at once. For me, the window became a kind of mirror. A place to reflect, to imagine, to hold memories.
I don’t try to tell one story. I try to create a visual poem made of light, shadow, and memory. These are not single moments. They’re made of many layers, just like we are. I hope when people look at them, they feel something familiar. Even if we come from different places, I think there’s something shared in longing, in remembering, in trying to belong.
