The work and music is based on an old Iranian poem about a carpet weaver girl weaving a carpet under a ruined roof. Images have been photographed from different carpets of Iranian, Turkish, and South Caucasian ethnicities such as Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and some from Morocco.
The poem “Ruined Arbor” is about the poet’s encounter with a girl who weaves carpets in the north of Iran. However, the work includes carpets from all over Iran, from different ethnicities and clans living in the country. Each of them uses their own colors and motifs in their work. For example, the elements of the Qashqai carpet of Shiraz are very different from the Bakhtiari carpet of Khuzestan or the Laki carpet of Kashan. During the creation process, multiple big carpet collectors from outside Iran were also contacted for photos from their archives.
The entire creation of the work took more than two years. We have prepared a comprehensive archive of hand-woven Iranian carpets and a small archive of hand-woven carpets outside Iran. The video follows the motifs used in the carpets showing animal, plant, human and finally abstract woven carpet patterns.
Biographies
Golrokh Hemmati was a student of fine arts in painting. She has held several individual and group exhibitions. Kasra Yazdani is also a graduate of animation and has had many personal experiences. This work is their third joint work.
Pebbles Underground is focused on showcasing and promoting experimental, avant-garde, underground, and no-to-low budget projects by artist-humans from all over the world. Absurd, uncanny, witty, humorous, slow-video – all are welcomed, and loved.
Pebbles Underground is an independent project not funded by any government or corporation, and we intend to keep it that way. Main source of funding is personal donations from humans organizing the project, who are artists themselves, and the main drive of the project is formed by the energy and involvement of the organizers, and the public.
