The power of love can eliminate devils who depend on the love of power. The power of love can exonerate humankind from incompetency, rebellion, and violence. Love can answer the thousands of unsolved and unopened mysteries of human life. Love can teach us how to understand each other. Love can prove that we are a part of a chain that one is useless without others. Love can lead us to accept that the happiness of our life depends on other people’s happiness. Wouldn’t it be so pleasant to rely on other people for pleasure instead of depending on fake power, fake news, counterfeit products, and fake authority?

We strive to prioritize and take care of matters that are important to us. Willingly or unwillingly, we like to preserve and safeguard our ideas, thoughts, values and adhere to them. We also try to spread these ideas and make people aware of them—very worthy ideas like anti-oppression, reparations for the vulnerable, the wellbeing of the environment, and the like, which of course, are stunning and valuable! But our focus is divided, between these notions and less wonderful desires. These less wonderful desires are not always reflections of our passions or preference, but attract our attention because of our fear of acting against the status quo and media propaganda.

In this work, I try to draw attention to a value that is sometimes forgotten: love. Not only to love one another but to love the whole universe and everything in it. If we believe that every action has a consequence, then the consequence of love will shine upon the universe. We must take good care of love, our most precious resource. We must try:

To love the environment like our own property,
To love the different cultures like our daily behaviors,
To love other perspectives like our own,
To love other children like our own,
To love the earth like our home,
To love the power of love like the love of power,
To love ourselves like ourselves.

Reza Hosseiny
2021

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Inversion Collection

First observation – One side of the coin

The flow of the universe is unbreakable. It is not like a factory production line, which is brought to a halt by any error or disturbance. The universe is unaffected by human actions and will carry on without us. In peace and quiet without humans, the earth will heal. Nevertheless, our unfavourable actions make life heartbroken. And in our inverted efforts to make life better, we stab on the body of Mother Nature. Nevertheless, People live, and the life cycle goes on, but I sarcastically wish it were like the production line of a factory that has been being failed with the slightest mistake and, as a result, everyone could be aware. If humans did have the power to destroy the universe, perhaps such a grave responsibility would allow us to see clearly.

I don’t believe ignorance is rooted in human nature, nor is it the essence of existence. Ignorance grows from living without reverence for the mystery of the universe, and from the urgent collection of material possessions, rather than reverence for the uniqueness of existence itself. In the Inversion collection, erratic forms with no unity of gesture act out a carnival of irrational chaos. Babbling their own stories, existing in their own time, and unaware of each other, their naive dance may be funny and endearing, but they are cruel and destructive without knowing. This dance is an inverted bustle: a comedy of errors, in which the perceived path forward is all wrong. Two steps forward and a calamitous collision transpires.

The aptest style to depict ignorance and chaos is the lack of any particular style or cohesion. I applied various formal techniques and methods, resulting in awkward and theatrical visual conflicts between the pieces. It’s as if the pieces are greedily collecting as many features as possible to appear as the best sculpture amongst their peers. But despite this variation, the pieces share some commonalities. By no means is the artist a god, but they all came from the earth as clay and animated by my hands. If the collection is a metaphor, then each piece might be a human celebrating some inverted accomplishment or invention, without recognition of the universe, which enabled him to act out his passion in the first place. Where humans believe they are awesome, they are ignorant, but when they acknowledge the chaotic dance of humans, they are falsely and feebly helpless.

Reza Hosseiny

2021

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