Belonging 2
2022Acrylic on canvas
50×60 cm
My inspiration for linking trees to women came from Shahrnush Parsipur's novel Women Without Men. The novel depicts women escaping the narrow confines of family and society and imagining their future living in a world without men. In my painting, I aim to portray women's relationship with the world by taking them out of complex social and political environments. Using the style of magical realism, I wish to construct a world of the subconscious and depict trees as symbols of stability and durability.