As a multi artistic meditation combining music, sound-design, drawing and dance through improvisation, this project focuses on a eleven translations of a sing poem by eminent Iranian poet and scholar Mohammad-Reza Shafiei Kadkani.  A meditation, lament and a wish, the poem has brought me to ask for audiences to write a wish that they have.  The congruency of the living wishes have been a loving tribute to the poem's depth and simplicity.

I collaborated with individuals whom I met walking the city of Yarra (and their friends around the globe who showed interest in the project) and asked them if they would consider translating and reciting the poem in the mother tongue.

The current version includes eleven translations of the original Farsi text and I hope that with each performance this continues to grow.

The first iteration of this project took place in September 2023 at Smith & Gertrude Gallery with the support from City of Yarra Arts and collaboration with artist Pouya Bagheri and dancer Jonathan Sinatra.  

Photos by: Emmanuel Santos