Painting for me is both therapy and silent music, a music that calms my soul and takes away the passage of time. This means that it’s only painting that removes me from the chaos of the outside world and takes me to the peaceful world of art, just as Charles Baudelaire, the 19^th century French poet, says: “Art is long, and time is short”. However, in this world of imagination, the images connected to the real world are always alive. Painting, in a way, takes me out of time and I lose track of its passage. In my works, I usually use acrylic and oil paint, and the vibrant colors and style I use are often a fusion of the Iranian images that have been shaped in my mind since childhood and modern western visuals.