



​The Garden:
This art project/installation explores the impact of news and propaganda on human life, our surroundings, and the ways people respond to such an environment. The idea is inspired by my life experiences. I live in a country where every day you can hear terrible news about it. The news will not fade away over time, nor will it be forgotten or become less impactful; it significantly affects human life. And we have no control over these events. And the news grows, wraps around us, and even blooms! I want to show how news and events affect our lives. “They” have an invisible effect, but in my painting, I want to show the reality of the existence of the new. News manifests as solid squares that grow and bloom around humans.
In this installation, I'm going to make a landscape—a garden—which is made of paper, and it is not simple paper; the whole installation is going to be made out of newspaper. As I mentioned, the presence of humans is also very important in this installation. There is a woman who is going to dance around the garden while she is wearing cloth that I made for her. Her clothes play a symbolic role in this project. When she wears them, it seems she is somehow part of the installation’s nature, or somehow she is becoming a part of that nature, which shows how that nature tries to control the human over there to somehow force her to become a part of that nature. But this installation talks about the state of realization and awareness; it talks about rebellion against things that try to control us, so she is going to escape her personal cell while she is dancing. The act of dancing is like a prayer or ritual that helps her to free herself from the news and propaganda environment. Additionally, music will be played during the dance, which plays an important role because it allows the dancer to keep time to follow the choreography.
In this installation, what we see is that a garden rises out of news; there are trees, flowers, bushes, and grass. It seems we are on another planet, which is made out of news. The installation aims to present an alternative perspective on control, reality, and the influence of news. You can find some similarity between this world and reality, but at the same time, you know that this is not a real garden.
The human inside of the garden is a woman. Is a person who after a while she notice this difference between reality and the news world - control-like world- the woman is in jail, the garden started to grow around her and stared to change her reality to another to shape her identity.
In Greek mythology, we have a story that Apollo falls in love with Daphne, but she is sworn to remain unmarried, free, and chaste. To escape Apollo’s pursuit, she asked her father to turn her into a tree so she could be free. "This kind of imagination chimes, of course, with the Romantic debate about the transformative powers of the imagination and its unstable aesthetics." But over here the woman is somehow in the process of becoming a tree, but she knows that what is her identity and what she knows is freedom is not to become something else; freedom is embracing what you are. So she starts to break free from the tree-like clothes to become aware of herself and the environment that she is in, to become free. Women are symbols of rebirth and fertility. She is aware of what she is doing, and she dances around the garden to clean herself; she dances to feel the freedom; she dances to learn how to move with anything that controls her; she dances to rebel.And perhaps we can assert that the act of dancing is a visual poem that recounts the narrative of rebellion against those who attempt to transform one into something they are not