Somayeh Farzaneh @ Internet

Book!

It feels female to me, her being silent in such a profound and
mature way increases my special feeling towards her - being a
teacher in a true sense at the right moment.
My appreciation increased to the soul of book while I became more
sensitive to the world ... reading poems, looking at the blank paper,
looking more closely to the paper itself ...
sitting silently somewhere and only start talking to you at the
moment you are ready to listen is her way.
She is keeping her silence as long as you do not know how to read it
in an absolute inner silence.
Book has a strong role in my challenging with art, I can say that
after nature itself, books play the biggest role in my life.

What I believe is that as an artist the first thing that needs to be
learned is this: Learning how to be open to the entire being - inner and outer.
I was reading poems from a book and i was enjoying from turning the
pages in a deep silence at night and I was wondering how to show
my appreciation in my art works!

The first thing that amazed me about books was very simple:
Turning the pages and seeing how the world will change in the next
page.

At the same time I was so much ambitioned to make the language of the book
universal.
I was wondering about making a book in a way that everybody would be able to
read it ... and it does not require a specific knowledge of a certain
language.

Therefore I choose a book whose language I could not read myself and
then i also worked on it upside down. In this way it will even be
difficult for people who actually know the language of the book.

My work started.

I made my colour myself, I colored the paper and waited for the pages to
dry and I did different things on the paper itself, I choose water
as the base of my work because water flows as much as a poem
would made my mind flow.

Every page would change with my daily changes ... I could observe that
how much I was unable to control the effects ...
Turning the pages in this particular book of mine is the main thing which I consider.
Facing with unexpected space and emptiness created
by color and burning traces on the book ...
I was wondering how can the burning trace be literally visualized
and it brought to me a very cheerful play.

Turning the page became meaningful in a visual sense, that was what
I enjoyed a lot ... sometimes a very cold landscape, sometimes a
desert and sometimes forest ...
My approach to this book continued for a long time because it was
rich enough to feed me for that much long.

I do continue working on books and my view of art books and their effect on me is
changing and changing.

Working on single book pages is also very rich for me ...
because in a loose book's paper turning has no function ... therefore I
create two visual sides as simple as possible ...
with less items and more concentration.

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(c) Somaiyeh Farzaneh, 2009, http://wu-wie.info