Rubble Monuments

In 2000 I spent three months travelling around southern Iran. These images were taken on a road trip with a university student I met in Kashan. Indirectly, these images are a response to the conversations I had with the people I met about their country. Many referred to themselves as Persians having more in common with Zoroastrianism than the political and social ideologies of the contemporary Islamic Republic. With high youth unemployment and heroine addiction, feeling ostracised from the political process, while fearing the secret police and hard liners—they saw them selves as disassembled Persia.

This is the context in which the work was made rather than what the work claims to be about. In a sense these piles of rubble are about ambiguous futures, they could be memorials pointing to the past or monuments facing the future—endings or beginnings. They are both forgotten plies of rubble that mimic the mountains in the background and testimony to potential eruptions of resistance.