I am Soheila Golestani, born in February 1976, amidst snow and winter’s cold in the beautiful city of Tehran.For me, life has always been a stage where pain and beauty coexist — a place where loss and hope, destruction and rebuilding, find meaning side by side.Art has never been merely a profession to me; it is a language through which I express what has taken shape in the depths of lived experience. It is a way of revealing emotions, memories, and silences that remained hidden within my heart for years and could only emerge through images, words, and light.Migration became a new beginning for me — a separation from the land where my roots once grew, and a search for new soil in which to bloom again. It was a difficult journey, filled with loneliness and longing, yet within that darkness, the seed of rebirth quietly began to grow inside me.The loss of loved ones and the experience of grief have also been inseparable parts of my journey — wounds that never fully heal, yet somehow become a light guiding the way forward. For me, sorrow is neither something to deny nor a burden to bury, but rather a possibility for transformation, growth, and continuation.Motherhood was not simply a life experience for me; it was a profound spiritual journey — one that led me toward rediscovering myself. Along this path, my daughter and I became mirrors, teachers, and students to one another, and through her presence, I discovered a deeper meaning of love, learning, and living.Art, for me, is not a destination but an endless flow — a path where love, experience, suffering, hope, and gratitude move together in a poetic language. Each of my works reflects a fragment of this journey: sometimes on canvas, sometimes in words, and sometimes through the lens of a camera.This collection is a continuation of that same journey — a passage from pain and longing toward hope, creation, and rising once again. It is an attempt to rebuild life after every collapse, to repaint the canvas of existence, and each time, to live more poetically than before.
