Smile Brother

Stand a few moments here under this board to take some rest, Now look into the camera and smile. You’re a super hero. Stay here a few seconds, In a few steps away maybe you wouldn’t exist. Do not ask me to tell you how to smile in this painful condition, perk and smile.

The plastic flowers inside the Aluminum showcase are decorating a portrait among them symmetrically. And a thousands of other objects that varies depending on individual characteristics of the sleeping person inside the tomb. The aluminum showcase with all of its components is covered by a curtain in order to be seen and not to be seen. If you pull the curtains aside, You will face with a conceptual artwork made of strange images and faded objects. Traces of tribute and barricaded love which the old objects and the decayed curtain adds more to its bitterness.

We can follow this trace by turning over the pages of family albums of all kind of people and specially the families who sent their loved ones to war. While turning over the pages of a family album we might have been faced with some cut photographs of a single person’s face or body. Seeing the emptied pictures has a shocking and bitter sense which intensifies when you know that the person does not exist anymore. Cutting the photographs in family albums as a subculture has always been popular among people and mostly was done for two purposes: In order to give a better place to the person who does not exist, like putting it inside a picture frame necklace for hanging on the chest, Or in order to not to see the missing person because of being unable to bear the bitterness of lose.

Saeed Ensafi, Feb.2014