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Cypress tree
“To turn into images on water”, [meaning to go up in smoke] is a Persian language
metaphor about a futile effort that effaces stability and abrogates strength and
permanence… a meaningless disappearance.
Permanence… is continuation towards eternity, perseverance, endurance… is to resist…
is persistence.
And cypress tree is the symbol of persistence; always green. Greenness has the secret of
creation. The Tree of Life is green; makes one’s wishes come true. The Cypress is the
sacred tree.
The first man was expelled from Heaven for stealing from the Tree of Life and
discovering the secret of germination. This achievement is the symbol of awareness.
Awareness is to comprehend and to feel; is cognition and insight, is vigilance. To knock
on wood is the symbol of waking up the god of vegetation and asking their help. The
Cypress bends against hardships, but rises up again. It stands tall and is the symbol of
freedom, an allegory for the loved one.
In this collection, “The Cypress grove, images on water”, I learned the forgotten methods
to revive the art of Mowj-weaving from Kordestan Province (Mowj: a hand-woven piece
of fabric mostly used as blanket or prayer rug) and wove the nature in a fabric; single
cypress trees that are images on water in a faded reflection… Only alongside each other,
the lonely Cypress trees form a cypress-grove, reflected on
