Passing Show
“What you see is a vacant place left by a rider who has crossed the desert.”
Bahman mohasses
Iranian contemporary artist
The technique I have used for this series of work is mostly Mezzotint. Using the same plate, this technique allows for the reduction of tones to make new images and forms after making each series of editions. In this way, the plate is automatically destroyed by its own process. As an artist who has left part of his existence into his works and when he dies, the only thing that remains is the artworks.
In the next phase, I have destroyed some of the actual prints by scratching, burning, pouring some concealing materials, and using other impromptu ways to reconstruct all the occurrences that have occurred to my works over the last decade, and might possibly occur in at least a centenary; as I believe not every artist is lucky enough to have all his/her works preserved in museums and collections. As the main theme of this series of works is "life and its undeniable result: Death,” this reductive process is a good reflection of the way that I look at life and what is most essential.
