Hossein Tamjid

Every time you decide to remember someone, you may remember the memories of him/her more than his/her face.
I’ve been involved with making portraits for some couple of years. Despite the interesting parts of portraiture for me, it was annoying when I realized about my concentration on its morphology. In other words, I didn’t like to lose the concept of making portraits. As the consequence, I started to have several 
experiments on different aspects of portraiture-
especially in the last two years.

It is showing another experience in my latest project -by a distinguished attitude- that contains my own signs. In this project, I’ve used the concept of semantic associations that -in my idea-they can indicate my deep interest to the portraits. There are some packages of memories in the present series that are associated with ceremonies held for people who are not around anymore, or, of the ones I cannot talk about their absence easily or maybe talking of them would be forbidden somehow. This situation of absence make my packages as tombstones decorated by some flowers while I don’t believe in any hesitate in order to appreciate departed people.

By the way, I prefer not to talk more than this about my works because there are no specific stories behind them except continuing the way I’ve started sometimes ago. 

Hossein Tamjid