In these haunting photographs, artist Minoosh Zomorodinia, looks to nature to reveal what she calls "unconscious and deeper, mysterious truths" about the natural world and anthropomorphic change.
I have been struck by the beauty and majesty of nature in its many different forms. Both the love of the travel and nature has become the inspiration for most of my work. When I am in nature, I gain a sense of the totality of life, of nature in its fullness. This forms for me as its spontaneous circle - the spontaneity and completeness of birth, life, and death. I believe nature itself is both the essence and the vision of my art. I believe in and trust the intuitive creative process to reveal the unconscious and deeper, mysterious truths. As the boundaries of art seem to be changing, these transitions have affected my photography so that now my work embraces performance, photography, site-specific installation and video.
"Destruction of nature, destruction of Human being" The pollution of nature has been the subject of both scientific research and the development of new movements in society and art. It has been an important issue in all my life. I try to use every possibility to show the crises and ways to face this global problem. I believe this is only man that makes these changes in nature. When I am in nature I am unable to be predominance. In working the 16th environmental art festival in MASHALAK forest, Noshahr, as I was doing collaborative project in environment, I was influenced by cut trees. I saw man is dying after dying nature. From then I have been installing my dead bodies in some landscape views. You can see beauty as well as concept or social message in these pictures.
"Frames" I did this project in Talab Gawkhoni in central Iran in 2009, where they were facing a drought. It was done during the 19th environmental art festival in Iran. I recorded my footprints in this marsh walking barefoot in the water about 8 inches deep. The ground was so smooth that I felt it invited me to get into the water to make my frames. While I was walking, the black soil under the yellow ground dispersed and filled the shape of a rectangular. It took me about 2 hours to make the shape properly and not having any trace in between the rectangles. I believe my unconscious helps to create my work; this specific piece was inspired by and with nature. As a photographer who is involved with frames and photos, I try to record "Frames" in wide landscapes instead of surrounding them inside. All frames are lasting but mine are not. My presence leaves momentary traces in nature which reflect my passing in various environments.
"From Nature" I believe in the importance of our connection to mother earth and I like to discover my existence in nature by installing my body in different forms. I place myself in a natural setting, echoing natural forms to reflect my place in the earth from which we came and to which we will return. Moreover, I want to demonstrate the power of the earth.
"Investigating my unconsciousness" I was so excited to finish this idea. It was a difficult technique to preserve Shahi plant. I experienced an excited feeling although it had difficult process. Preserving seeds in a hot summer days and having a temporary space caused some problems but the important point was that I had a limited time to have got my art work done. Any events could harm my seeds and the result would be damaged. I saw and felt myself inside the growing seeds, our life is the same, and the opportunity is less, we don’t have enough time to reach to our goals. I only think of passing time because of the straitened circumstances. I should say that any growing in nature is as an experience of birth, Live and Death in my mental disturbance so I keep opening and green my perception windows which are as my frames.
"My Room" As an Iranian Muslim woman, I struggle in my life to have a free life. These photos could be a part of other Iranian at my age. Room to me is a closed, restricted place which we spend half of our life indoors. My rooms are narrative of various Iranian lifestyles. Video: Red Line Red Line In this video I demonstrate the boundaries in a traditional culture. It is a narration of some Muslim women in Iran. A woman is stuck in her life with mandatory rules. A Muslim woman finds hopes and despairs in her life.
"Presence" Our mind is traveling to many places just like our body. After every journey we take a picture of our memories in such an amateur by usual camera and a professional photographer by a professional camera. All these snapshots are very important to us no matter who we are. "Presence" has been a feeling that sometimes I believe it will be my trip after death. Eternal nature is still in my shots while my physical being is faded in order to induction my feeling better. In my opinion my white presence is making a trace which I recorded by photos. Even after death all these places will last although my body will demolish and just shots long last.
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