Iranian sisters living in Regina use art as form of protest

I feel the guilt that I left my country. But by doing this, I feel that OK, now I’m doing something, now I am contributing to my country. Sisters, I’m Shami, I’m Shima, We are Iranian artist and we live in Regina. Our base medium is ceramic and we do a lot of ceramic sculpture and also it’s extend to ceramic installation. The thing is, currently most of our recent artwork is inspired by the bravery of. Iranian freedom fighter. And in this setup I used the basic shape of those kind of Tulip, because in Iran everyday we are losing a young innocent protesters and I wanted to honor them and I wanted to tell their story that way. Tulip is like very repetitive motive in Persian poetry when they want to refer martyrs, martyrs for freedom or innocent people that’s been killed brutally and the elements of the ladder is about to show their unity among all the people in Iran. The other artworks that it shows like tulips and arrow and one of them is a step forward. It shows that. People of Iran, they step forward. To retain their dignity back. I think the bravery of the younger generation is inspiring for everybody and they step one and step forward and they want to protest, they want to fight back to the regime. Iran was a decent country to live, but after Islamic Revolution in 1979, we lost our country to the religious tyranny and now a lot of young people. Found their country in not a good place to live anymore because it’s like a lot of hardship in terms of financial, in terms of political issues and also in terms of freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of practicing art. And also sometimes we think that, OK, because we are so bold about it, we may not be able to go back, but it’s the risk we are going to take because we want to talk about it. If you censor ourselves here too, it’s so what’s the point?