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که عشق آسان نمود اول ولی افتاد مشکل ها

I wrote something down for this action but I decided to leave it in a word document as a diary of the moment I couldn’t continue working on this action and of the things that have happened to me during the last couple of weeks. I could say I have experienced an intense mixture of all the opposite emotions. Hope and disappointment, happiness and sadness…

I started this action a couple of weeks ago by asking the cohort to send me a sentence about “Love” in their mother language and send me a voice of themselves saying that sentence. I have always loved hearing different languages. I like the fact that the cohort come from different part of the world. I asked about love because we have all experienced it in our lives. Hearing the cohort speaking their mother tongue was so thrilling for me and the expression of love added emotion to their voice. Some of them were not comfortable talking about love because they found it bitter. Love seems to be complicated and full of opposite emotions. Love connects people and it is love that make us human.

“ਇਹ ਪਿਆਰ ਹੀ ਹੈ ਜੋ ਸਾਨੂੰ ਮਨੁੱਖ ਬਣਾਂਦਾ ਹੈ”
“Mais amor por favor”
“Ammavukku tan pillai mel mikavum anbu”
“रहिमन धागा प्रेम का, मत तोरो चटकाय. टूटे पे फिर ना जुरे, जुरे गाँठ परी जाय”
“十年生死两茫茫,不思量,自难忘。”
“ভালবাসা”
“প্রেম”
“热爱”

“Love is everything you want to work for with another person. It’s a feeling that even thinking about them makes your chest instantly warm, like their pulse has just shot through your body. It’s loving someone in all their ways, even the ways that need healing. This is who they are and you love them in their entirety. Love is a mirror and it can reflect onto you, showing both lightness and dark.”

I got fascinated by the different alphabets I received. The shapes and curves had the feeling of love by themselves. I wanted to keep all them for myself, so I decided to work with fabric and bring out the discarded fabrics and cut offs. I placed them beside each other like a puzzle.

That night the weather got so cold and I decided to use the fabric to create a winter shawl. I haven’t used my sewing machine since my Action 1. I used its zigzag to connect the pieces of fabrics together.  I wanted to show the power of connection and healing which comes from Love.

 I used all the small pieces of cut offs to create the words the cohort sent me and stich them on the shawl I created.  I had the company of my husband’s niece and nephews and it felt like the whole place was filled with pure love. They even participated and placed some heart shape fabrics on my shawl. The worked beside me to create bracelets with beads.

I spent three days working on the shawl and the last day that I finished the shawl Tehran had its first snowy day.

I had a warm shawl full of emotions for a cold winter. The moment that I decided to create the shawl doing the action didn’t matter that much. I felt that in this action I really did something for myself. It was a gif to me and it involved the cohort as well.

The Language of Love

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