“The Wild Trees of My Garden” is a site-specific project that explores the transformative power of nature and the convergence of organic and human intervention. The creative process unfolded in two distinct phases.
The first phase involved a six-month installation period within the Hyrcanian forests of Northern Iran. Situated in the garden of an eighty-year-old traditional residence in Zardekand village, Tonekabon, I installed various fabrics directly onto the trees. Over the course of half a year, these textiles were exposed to the elements, interacting with sunlight, precipitation, and local insect life. This period allowed nature to act as a primary collaborator, physically weathering and imprinting the materials with the textures of their environment.
In the second phase, I engaged in a series of improvisational paintings directly onto these weathered fabrics while they remained mounted within the forest landscape. After the fabrics were removed from the trees, the contrast between the areas that had been exposed to natural processes and those that had remained protected from them was striking.
