The portrait is
constructed through lines, appearing through gaps as much as through form.
A site-specific portrait developed through linear construction and perceptual fragmentation.
Public Mural Project – Third National Mural Biennial “Shahedan-e-Shahr”, Tehran, Iran, June 2015
This work
approaches portraiture through a system of lines rather than a solid image.
The face is
formed from layered contours and directional marks, where parts of the image
are defined as much by absence as by presence.
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- Leila Delfan
At times, the
portrait is clearly readable; at others, it breaks apart into lines and
fragments.
What becomes
important is this shift between abstraction and recognition, where the image is
not fixed but completed through the viewer’s perception.
Rather than
following familiar forms of memorial imagery, the work focuses on structure,
rhythm, and the instability of the image itself.
