Decorative ceramic Pomegranate - Mashgh Poem

Hand Crafted and Painted

 انار تزیینی/ ساخته و نقاشی شده با دست

Material: Ceramic

Diameter: 3 inches at the rim 

Height: 4  inch

Weight:0.5 lb.

1st pom poem

یک عمر خوانده بودیم

During the 1980’s this poem was from a song on TV that used as a learning device to teach

children to write Farsi, similar I suppose to the Tom and Jane series in the US. A line from this

poem: “Sarah has a pomegranate” became the ^tle of one of my video works. Subsequently

this poem was used as a protest song tracing the history of pre and post revolu^on Iran. In it a

girl named Sarah is holding a pomegranate which leads to a bullet in the heart and blood on the

streets.

2nd pom poem

صد دانه یاقوت

The poem on this pomegranate describes the beauty of this historic fruit. Children were asked

to memorize the poem, and use it to practice writing elegant cursive inscriptions rather than

the crude leier blocks employed on this pomegranate.

3rd pom poem

به نام زن به نام زندگی

The third poem is adapted from a protest song from the Woman-Life-Freedom movement of

2022. In a sense this returns to the first poem and its transforming from a children’s learning

tool to a site of social protest.