A Rare Moment!

I felt your heart, when I took you in.

It was a rare moment;
Time stopped,
Rain stopped,
Your heart stopped,
Only the scent of wet soil continued into my lungs.
It was a rare moment!

One of those moments that my hope opens its wings,
That my smile breaks my fear,
That I have no tear,
One of those rare moments, when I dream that my dreams are real and I have no fear,

It was a rare moment under the summer rain,
It was you, who took away my pain,

Two tiny white spots on your wings, I remember well,
A fade azure ruff around your neck, that had no break,
And the smell of rainbow in a far away sky, that took away your hope to fly,


I took you in, from the rain,
I felt your heart with my vein,
And,
In that rare moment, I had no chain!

I gave you up to the cruel warmth,
And with you, went away my broken heart!

It was a rare moment!

Back on the chain,
Back in the pain,
I am waiting for the rain!

* Blue Dove by Picasso,
** For D13, my baby dove,

Iran, Where Mathematics is challenged!

Where Mathematics is challenged:

Last night in the cloudy sky of Austin I saw the crescent moon of June; a dash of hope in the gloomy days of my life.

I am from Iran; I study Art History. I live in Austin with a cat and a mathematician husband whose ultimate belief in mathematics was challenged a couple of weeks ago.

It was about three weeks ago around 2AM Tehran’s time, that Iran’s interior ministry with a speed unknown to men announced the results of the 10th Presidential Election; more than 20 million votes were counted and the winner of the presidential election was announced some hours later, as Ahmadinejad.

My husband said, the interior ministry people have probably failed their calculus courses in high school.

The next day when people, my friends and my fellow students, came to the streets to get their votes back, my family of 4 in Tehran extended to millions. It was yet another mathematically challenging equation.

Today, although we are far from Iran, we are standing side by side with our family of millions, with our fellow Iranians.

Since mathematics could not answer neither for the fraudulent election of June 2009, nor for my overgrown family, my mind is reaching out to any art historical analysis I have learned. So I may be able to bring some sense to what has shocked my people and me in these past weeks.

Iran, my country is in a Surreal State; a mixture of dreams and nightmares. People of course are trying to turn the dreams into reality and the nightmares into a minimal state.

I am from Iran, where mathematics is challenged and surrealistic nightmares are ruling.

Our Votes Are Stolen, But Not Our Hopes!

Iran: No to The Coup!

Where is My VOTE?
Where is the People's VOTE?
Where is OUR VOTE?

My country, Iran, is under Coup d'etat!

No to Coup d'etat!

PS. Thanks to T. for his unwanted corrections; it is good to know people care!

2009 Iranian Presidential Election:

On Iranian Presidential Election:
The 2009 presidential election in Iran has fully occupied my days in the past month. There are 3 candidates running besides the current president. They are: Mir-Hossein Mousavi (Independent Reformist), Mehdi Karroubi (Etemad-e Meli, Reformist) Mohsen Rezaee (Independent Conservative).

If you are interested and you are more comfortable reading the news on Iran's coming election in English these are some useful inks to check. Most of my links are from BBC News partly because I am an old BBC fan and in some parts because I think among other agencies BBC is relatively impartial.

Iranian presidential election, 2009 on Wikipedia
Iran's presidential candidates BBC
Iran presidential race appears to get tighter BBC
Big test for Iranian democracy BBC
Iran candidate backs women's rights BBC
Ahmadinejad courts a divided Iran BBC
Iran's Ahmadinejad lambasts opponents BBC
Will Iran's 'Marriage Crisis' Bring Down Ahmadinejad? Time

Build on your background information on Iran:
Iran History and Timeline
Iran in Maps
Country Profile
Iran: facts and figures
Guide: Who runs Iran
Iran's revolution turns 30

WE Will Vote!
We vote for those who Do Not Lie to us,
For those who Do Not Oppress us,
For those who Do Not Discriminate against
Women, Children and Minorities,
For those who are a step Forward in the Process of Reform!

Vote!

Row-Maker / Row-Breaker :

This sounds interesting:
Selseleh/Zelzeleh: Movers & Shakers in Contemporary Iranian Art

An exhibition of Contemporary Iranian Art in LTMH Gallery (Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller Gallery). It is a group exhibition featuring 40 artists from the post WWII to today. Selseleh/Zelzeleh stands for Tradition/Tremor. I would paraphrase it to Row-Maker /Row-breaker. The names that caught my eyes are: Parviz Tanavoli, Nazanin Pouyandeh, Sohrab Sepehri and ShirinNeshat. The exhibition will be on view until August 20th, 2009. If I make it to New York this summer this exhibition will be one of my visits.

Heech on a Chair, Parviz Tanavoli, 2007-8,

* Read more about the exhibition on Artlog: Selseleh / Zelzeleh: Movers & Shakers In Contemporary Iranian Art.