{"id":427,"date":"2022-06-07T11:45:57","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T08:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/?p=427"},"modified":"2022-06-07T11:47:13","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T08:47:13","slug":"seven-paintings-june-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/2022\/06\/07\/seven-paintings-june-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven Paintings, June 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel-pane pane-entity-field pane-node-field-gallery-text\">\n<div class=\"pane-content\">\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-gallery-text field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-427 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/2022\/06\/07\/seven-paintings-june-2022\/yellow_boat\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/yellow_boat-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/2022\/06\/07\/seven-paintings-june-2022\/red_sea\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/red_sea-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/2022\/06\/07\/seven-paintings-june-2022\/red_moon\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/red_moon-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/2022\/06\/07\/seven-paintings-june-2022\/orange_boat_and_sun\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/orange_boat_and_sun-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/2022\/06\/07\/seven-paintings-june-2022\/blue_boat\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/blue_boat-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/2022\/06\/07\/seven-paintings-june-2022\/attachment\/5\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/5-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/2022\/06\/07\/seven-paintings-june-2022\/attachment\/4\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/4-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"rtecenter\"><strong>Artist Statement<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">My works explore personal and political journeys based on both my life and collective experiences that I have witnessed and heard about.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">I\u2019m interested in evoking an emotion expressing the concerns of everyday life such as imprisonment, immigration, poverty etc &#8211; but also seeing the other side with hope and kindness. My work explores the vulnerabilities of humans which are a snapshot of collective trauma, inflicted on us by the corrupt system. I capture this in my work, regardless of the media I use: drawing, painting, sculpture or printmaking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">My exploration of these subjects started with the realisation that there were no pictures or vivid paintings when I was a political prisoner in Iran. I became a civil rights activist when the Islamic regime took power in 1979. I was arrested in 1982, tortured and spent eight years in prison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">My background study was not art, so while I started to work with watercolours at home to depict the images of prison, I went to life drawing to learn proportion. My hands met clay for the first time in 2018 and I worked with several different printing methods which helped me realise that I could say what I wanted to through art. I have found that despite the lack of control over the final image in printmaking, I could play with it during the process of creation, which made the result interesting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">Both my writing and art are about our historical time: brutal power politics and social injustices all over the world as well as the collective trauma this places on people. I feel that painting and printmaking are more immediate forms of art and means of expression than writing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">These paintings of refugees are about the English Channel which is a shameful sea of blood.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"panel-separator\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"panel-pane pane-views pane-creators-for-a-given-article\">\n<div class=\"pane-content\">\n<div class=\"view view-creators-for-a-given-article view-id-creators_for_a_given_article view-display-id-block view-dom-id-26329f2847770aebd52f7ff2abe9a623\">\n<div class=\"view-content\">\n<div class=\"views-row views-row-1\">\n<div class=\"creators-for-a-given-article-block-fields clearfix\">\n<div class=\"ds-right\">\n<div class=\"views-field-description_1\">\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/nasrin_parvaz_0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-428\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/nasrin_parvaz_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"147\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>Nasrin Parvaz<\/strong>\u00a0became a civil rights activist when the Islamic regime took power in 1979. She was arrested in 1982, and spent eight years in prison. Her books are\u00a0<em>One Woman&#8217;s Struggle in Iran, A Prison Memoir<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>The Secret Letters from X to A<\/em>\u00a0(Victorina Press 2018).<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">Nasrin\u2019s poetry and stories have been published in different anthologies. Her paintings were accepted for inclusion in the exhibitions,\u00a0Calendar and for postcards. Learn more at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nasrinparvaz.org\/\">NasrinParvaz.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unlikelystories.org\/content\/seven-paintings-june-2022\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist Statement My works explore personal and political journeys based on both my life and collective experiences that I have witnessed and heard about. I\u2019m interested in evoking an emotion expressing the concerns of everyday life such as imprisonment, immigration, poverty etc &#8211; but also seeing the other side with hope and kindness. My work &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/2022\/06\/07\/seven-paintings-june-2022\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Seven Paintings, June 2022<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[51,43,22,49],"class_list":["post-427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-painting","tag-migration","tag-painting","tag-political","tag-prisoners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":436,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions\/436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}