Printed and Embroidered Pearls on Fabric
Forough Farrokhzad was an influential Iranian poet. She was a controversial modernist poet and an iconoclast, writing from a female point of view. Her poem, Conquest of The Garden, for instance, emphasizes the role of women within a restricted society and presents the thoughts and emotions of an Iranian woman who asserts her own selfhood, subjectivity, and agency. Farrokhzad`s poetry became controversial for its bold, female voice and its harsh criticism of the position of women in Iranian society.
Here I chose the Reborn poem:
I know a sad little fairy
who lives in an ocean
and ever so softly
plays her heart into a magic flute
I tried to show the melancholy state of Farrokhzad's poetry in a state of affliction with this Iranian beauty who is shown in a painting from the Qajar era.