Still Life (after Tabiat-e Bijan)

Oil on glossy cardboard · 24 × 36 inches

Inspired by Sohrab Shahid-Saless’s minimalist film, this painting translates cinematic stillness into abstraction. Two elongated figures face one another across a shallow, undefined space. They hover in proximity without touching, suspended in a silent dialogue shaped by time and repetition.

A radiant orange field envelops the background—warm yet suffocating—while a dark red ground anchors the figures in shared but emotionally weighted terrain. Environmental detail dissolves, leaving posture and distance as the primary language.

One figure inclines inward; the other stands more upright, yet equally enclosed. Intimacy and isolation coexist. Rather than narrating events, the painting captures duration—the quiet endurance of lives shaped by routine, silence, and subtle imbalance.