GOLOBOLBOL گل و بلبل

Following her fascination in language, the rhythm of the words, and speech regardless of the semantics and syntax), the artist chose to use ancient Persian poetry, when she was asked to install in a rose garden on the campus. She recorded poems on the rose and the relationship between the gardener as the lover who greatly takes care of the rose. The poems were recited by one Persian male (her father) and one Persian female. While as a counterpart, verses of the same poems were recited by a Mexican male and a Korean Female to play with the rhythms of the Persian language via a foreign accent.

Persian poetry is famous for its intonation and rhythmic system, which also is one of the basis and the bedding for the rhythm in Persian traditional music.

The artist used the contrast of the native Persian speakers who could easily and correctly pronounce each word with its rhythm, counter the none-Persian speakers who although saying the right words, could not comprehend that same rhythm.

Six speakers where places in plant pots, hidden in the rose bushes, reciting the poems on the relationship between the bird (Nightingale), the Flower (Rose) and the gardener. The pots where rearranged every day during the summer school to give the composition more dynamic.

The installation was a depiction of the illustrations of the bird and the flower along the calligraphy of the poetry in Ancient Persia.