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باغ فین - Bagh-e Fin

باغ فین - Bagh-e Fin

Inspired by the historic garden of باغ فین - Bagh-e Fin in Kashan, one of Iran’s oldest and most enchanting gardens, this painting reimagines paradise as both design and discovery. Water channels trace perfect lines through the garden, reflecting the architecture of the Safavid era - symmetry born of devotion.

Yet through these lines, life overflows. Blossoms breach their borders, vines reach across marble edges and the order of geometry gives way to the freedom of growth. In a quiet corner of the garden, a carpet is spread out, adorned with wondrous fruits and small delights, inviting the viewer to linger.

Bagh-e Fin celebrates the balance between human intention and nature’s wild persistence. It is a garden to be wandered, not possessed - a living map of beauty that renews itself with every gaze.

Garden of Underground Sources

Garden of Underground Sources

A secret garden unfolds between worlds - hidden, timeless, untouched by the noise of order and decay. Two trees reside beside a still, mysterious water. Behind them, mountains guard the horizon like memory itself.

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The silence shimmers with unseen life. From the depths, living waters rise to feed this place of beginning and return. Two ethereal birds linger by the shore, keepers of stillness and transformation. Here, the world seems to pause - held in the breath between creation and renewal.

Tree of Resilience

Tree of Resilience

Amid blossoming shrubs and patterned foliage stands the Tree of Resilience - a living emblem of endurance and renewal. Within its branches, a pair of birds converse softly, their song waving through the air like memory and hope.

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The painting draws inspiration from Maya Angelou’s words: “I can be changed by what happens to me, but I refuse to be reduced by it.” The tree embodies that spirit - shaped by the seasons, yet never diminished. Every leaf and bloom carries the quiet strength of life that bends, listens, and continues to rise.

Garden of Delight

Imagine the locus of our beginning and end, where the conscious self reunites with its hidden source. In soft shades of rose and blue, a garden unfolds - a place of stillness and awakening.

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A path winds upward beyond the tree, leading toward distant forms that seem half-temple, half-memory. Among flowering shrubs, birds rustle and sing, weaving sound into silence. In their midst sits a Buddha, one knee raised, his head resting gently on his hand - a gesture of both repose and reflection.

Garden of Delight is a meditation on return: where the outer world fades into the inner, and thought dissolves into the quiet rhythm of being.