AZADEH
PIRAZIMIAN

When you immigrate, many things are taken away from you. Your society, your culture, your language. The things that have been deeply rooted in your being for your entire life. I should confess that dealing with this separation needs tremendous power and strength. So in the first year of immigration, my emotions went up and down constantly. Therefore, I needed to figure it out and fix these unstable and chaotic feelings. I needed to find my rhythm first. So, the series “They are around” came out as a response to this need. Thus I grabbed a pen and a small notebook and got out of my tiny apartment to any green spaces nearby. Sitting and trying to see and draw anything around me, a tree, a leaf, a moving shade, a little squirrel wandering on the grass, any teeny-tiny existence around could connect me to this new space.