I’ve always been invested in the socio-political issues in my own country, now that I’m here in the US I can see that many Iranian people’s struggles aren’t covered by the American mainstream media. Not only are Iranians’ voices silenced by their own government, their voices and stories are not reaching other countries. Additionally, international sanctions on the Iranian government have directly impacted people causing the rich to get richer and the poor to get poorer. This seemingly infinite loop of hopelessness as well as the crackdown on the protesters and devaluation of currency has resulted in the migration of students to other countries to continue their education. Many end up having to make a new home far from their family and unable to reunite.
In this project I tried to build my emotional response to the current world by representing longing, loneliness, homesickness in the form of dreams and nightmares.
