My painting has become an Album cover. It happened when a colleague of mine who happens to be musician wanted one of my paintings as an Album cover. Here it is:
http://www.reverbnation.com/store/view_item_album/artist_1037650?item_id=1573020
I-have-no-feelings
This is a triptych telling the story of a political prisoner who is incarcerated inside a small space. Constraint movement in a small space causes madness in some prisoners. He is interrogated and tortured. The white light torture or sensory deprivation torture creates disorientation hence the blurriness in the second panel in contrast to sharpness of the first panel. In the first panel the presence of bats symbolises madness and also the existence of a fundamentalist element that went unnoticed until the revolution. The third panel shows decomposing of blood into soil and a disintegration which bring more blood and taints a nation. Many are killed and buried in unmarked graves in this way.
The phrase “I have no feelings” was a quote from Ayatollah Khomeini. He was asked how he felt about going home after years of exile and he provided a response that became symbolic of his psychopathic cruelty towards his fellow Iranians. The phrase “I have no feelings” has been turned into semi-abstract Persian calligraphy, disguised, spread or sometimes visible in all three panels.
This is a work in a new school of work called DaGod. DaGod is derived from Dada but unlike Dada it is movement against the crimes of religious fundamentalism.
DaGod is my own invented Art school and there are only a few works in this style. The controversial nature of the work has resulted in one of my works from this school to be shown on CNN and VOA. The first panel has also become an Album cover of a South African band called Bipolar Rats. DaGod often carries dark artistic humour and elements of it are similar to religious iconography (in this case the golden sculpted frames which are part of the work).
Please note price is per painting rather than the 3 panels. Print of individual items is also available.
I have no feelings tryptic panel 3
Part of my Dagod series. Oil with sculptured frame.
I have no feelings tryptic panel 2
Part of my Dagod series. Oil with sculptured frame.
I have no feelings tryptic panel 1
Part of my Dagod series. Oil with sculptured frame.
My second variation of my earlier Imam Manson without the caption. Please note that my material has my copyright and has my protective digital signature.
Prints of this image are available for sale (just click it).
This image has now been on CNN, VOA and many newspaper. I made this last year and wrote an Art manifesto for a new school of Art called DaGod. DaGod as an offshoot of Dada but it protests against religious fundamentalism.
The image was taken by someone in the “Campaign for promotion of Imam Naghi” shortly after I had it published in the iranian.com web site. The group turned it to their mascot.
The explanation of this image is that it ridicules the fundamentalists who with their serial killer characteristics wear the cloak of saints ( although being an atheist I don’t think too highly of saints!).
The Mourning mothers
I modeled this sculpture with clay and cast it in plaster. It is titled Mourning mothers. It is a homage to the Mourning mothers group in Iran i.e. mothers whose political children were executed by the regime and turned to a protest group.
I published this cartoon when it was rumoured that Khamenei is preparing his son as an heir apparent.
Mojtaba was responsible for leading the crack down on the Green movement protesters after the rigged election.
This is a work on the contradictory aspect of faith. This is when the message of faith is that it brings peace but it creates division.
It says:
Worship my god or I’ll hit you on the head!
Bakhtak is a demon that attacks at night whilst you are sleeping and sucks your life source. Here a Mullah is depicted as such a demon attacking a sleeping woman.
