{"id":17,"date":"2026-05-26T06:21:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T06:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/untitledfigure.com\/?p=17"},"modified":"2026-05-26T06:21:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T06:21:41","slug":"a-world-made-of-exploding-light-glass-ice-and-pearl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/untitledfigure.com\/?p=17","title":{"rendered":"A World Made of Exploding Light, Glass, Ice, and Pearl"},"content":{"rendered":"

Imagine you are seated inside a spacecraft that has been drifting aimlessly through space for years. Then one day, without warning, a radiant shimmer of multicoloured light streams through the window and settles gently upon your face. Startled, you rush toward the window and gaze outside in awe\u2014only to realize that you have entered an entirely new world.<\/span><\/p>\n

A world of exploding light, of glass, ice, and pearl.<\/span>
\n<\/span>A world of silence and profound horizons.<\/span>
\n<\/span>A crystalline world where flowers are human, and humans are absent.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is my experience of gazing at the paintings of Iran Darroudi.<\/span><\/p>\n

Some artists paint what they see; others paint what they feel. Darroudi, in my view, first <\/span>sees<\/span><\/i> what she feels\u2014and only then paints it. Perhaps this is because the distance between the artist and the art is so small\u2026 sometimes nonexistent.<\/span><\/p>\n

Even if you strip away certain imposed elements\u2014like overt displays of patriotism, hints of Eastern mysticism, or the poetic titles\u2014you are still left with an entire universe of pure feeling.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet, she herself seems to mistakenly attribute her recognition to external influences. For instance, the poem Ahmad Shamlou wrote as the introduction to her first collection\u2014aside from the single line, <\/span>\u201cWe did not ask you to depict it\u201d<\/span><\/i>\u2014does little, in my opinion, but diminish the spirit of modern poetry.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bride of Memory<\/span><\/i>, by Iran Darroudi<\/span>
\n<\/span>Cold<\/span><\/i>, by Iran Darroudi<\/span><\/p>\n

I often find myself thinking: if one day I were fortunate enough to own a piece of Darroudi\u2019s work, I would hang it somewhere beyond my room, on a vast wall. A place where, when all the lights are turned off and the city falls silent, the moonlight could fall upon it\u2014bringing it to life\u2014while I drift to sleep, gazing at it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Perhaps then, I too would enter that world of exploding light, glass, ice, and pearl.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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