Zen-degi
O Divisor inspired by a performance created by Lygia Pape in 1968 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It makes everyone to think, explore, work, and collaborate as a group. It involved sewing, planning the event and performing it to an audience. Zen-degi drawing is a response to this project.
I joined about 50 others in poking our heads through holes in a large white fabric that we sewed. This experience led us to have different views of the environment around us with our limited movement of body. Each individual had their own experience; While my position in the middle of the fabric afforded me a view of many others and a sense of surrounding by strangers.
Zen-degi means “life” in Farsi which shows my point of view in this performance through free writing; it shows ME surrounded by people in life, either friends or strangers. People who only know me by my name, not by my reality. The words in Zen-degi might make no sense to you because of all the grammar or dictation mistakes whereas it all make sense to me. This is exactly how our life is; it makes sense to you but not anyone else. We all have our own interpretation and experience with life.
