ArtTara - Art works

	Performance With mahmoud Maktabi, Shoushtar, Riverside Photo by Mehdi Motvalli 2010.8
	The party: “68 musty glasses from the party” After one month mother and father came back from Mecca. (Pilgrimage) . Family, friends, colleagues and neighbors came to visit them. Now there are some musty Paper glasses next to me and the memory of the party days. A Friday. At home.
	Mirror The water damage ceiling in the house was the site specific for me. Even though I knew the house would be destructed my feminine sense didn't let me ignore it. With the rags from the past I made a shape of the specific old fashion mirror, which I had seen them being sold by hawkers, around the damage to look alike it that it was used in bathrooms in the past. However, my mirror was made of earth not mercury but I could see me better!
	Chador In the "Chador ", I put on my veil since we have always been together, ever since I was 9, Sometimes out of divine love and sometimes out of hatred.
	Patchwork Hand is a symbol, coming from ancient customs which is found in most of the cultures in different shapes and meanings and also it is one of the signs which have remained of primary people. palm reading in some cultures was a way to tell the future of people. It is also known as the human second's eye. The form of "hand with open fingers" was used in pre Islamic Iran, but Nowadays it is the symbol of the third Shiites' Imam's brother, Abbas. Forty is a symbolic number to different cultures and also it is a measure to show numerousness. To me "hand" is the sign of human existence and "chel-tekke" is a womanish art, is widespread among different Iranian folks where the colorful textiles are sewed together, making covertures or colorful rugs, needle points and chel-tekke are associated with woman and womanish art. "CHel-tekke" was made of pieces of textiles or trashy clothes, which are a kind of traditional recycling itself, were common in the society. I decided to revive this beautiful art by young girls. It was done by Lor women, native of Lorestan, before. I wanted more than 440 students, 11 to 14 year old girl, to make a "chel-tekke". It lasted 6 weeks to design the form and colors and needlepoint on it. My chel-tekkes are designed with two hands beside each other which convey the existence of human and his art
	The call If I were supposed to put a human symbol in my works, that symbol would be the shape of the hand. A hand with open fingers, so it would call the humanity. The Hand is the symbol of familiarity. Even the primitive man had left this symbol on the caves as a relic for us.
	Offering It was black at first just like a death of a tree and I was covered (dressed) in white Just like when I was born By the vastness (eternity) of the beach The purity of my being experienced the blood of the earth and then, I was green all over while released of all boundaries
	Amid the past The curiosity and playfulness forced me to pay a short visit to everywhere. To be in some of these places or times ; I was born too late; it’s a pleasure that I can take my imagination to these places or stand near their remains and conceive myself at that age. Sometime being at that age is playing the role of other ones and playing is always nice.
	Playing with fire In my Iranian culture fire is a symbol of light and purifying. To kindle a fire from my childhood has always been a joy until now and I have learnt that how I could control such a rebellious creature. My body is placed in the middle of fire to be a sign of my searching for purity.
	Water playing I’m doubtful between my existent or non-existent.Sometimes I am because I can change routine progresses. Sometimes I am not and progresses pass on me, like a tiny stone in the huge river way or a small rock at the seaside.
	Mask When I look at the mirror I don't see me. It looks like a stranger and I am terrified of this face. By hiding my face behind the mask I feel so close to me and feel more comfortable. However, always hiding behind the mask doesn't have the same feeling rather horror. I guess, it maybe a feminine common sense! My masks are either horror or pretty and each has a different concept itself. Most of my masks are from surroundings either a house or a natural environment where I like to experience in.
	Fairy The fairy tales are a part of literature in most of the world that some of the features are common between the fairies from all around the world. The fairy has been alive in Iranian mind, thinking and history. From Avesta to the popular stories; the name of the fairy has been repeated again and again. And in contrast to the evil face of the fairy in Zoroastrianism, fairy in the Persian literature is the symbol of beauty and in the popular culture; fairy is a legendary and beautiful creature that is vanished from human eyes. And I revealed the fairy with her hair which was borrowed from nature; as all around the world the beautiful creature has to have beautiful hair.
	Squat Squatting and being crumpled in the environment is a kind of research for me. I’m searching to find an answer for my questions. Who am I? And where do I belong to? When I squat in a small place, I see myself a bit of a great creation. While I’m squatting, I have a familiar sense; like I experience my embryo period again.
	Like the sleep In the performance of” like the sleep” in the different environments, I leave myself alone with death for few minutes. And I prepare myself for it. When my body will be relax somewhere in the nature; it’s like I’m not alone and I’m a bit from a great world. Maybe it could be said that death is a deep sleep; and the sleep is the light death (with notification to the no.42, Alzomar, from Quran). Sometimes I put a coffin with flower motifs on myself to show how much this sleep is beauty.
	Sabzeh This project addresses the Noroz that is the most important event in Iran. In this event people celebrate the New Year and they make a table of seven objects start with "S" which each is symbolic. "Sabzeh" is one of them that has the meaning of life and happiness and if you have it for Noroz you will have happiness for whole year. It is either a plant or a seed. It is habitually kept for 13 days of Noroz. The growing of seeds is an accomplishment for them and I express my desire which is humanity by growing seeds.