Chelgis is the name of a series of four installation pieces. The conception of this project stems from my lived experience  in the 21st century.

   The work corresponds in many ways to the gender based reality of everyday life marked by a range of official and cultural constraints. Some of these constraints have been around in thousands of years and seems to be part of the women's self understanding. The disparity and pressures have sometimes been considered as a woman's ornament and beauty. The work is informed by this interplay or double binding. The works are freely inspired by an ancient Iranian folklore tale, Chelgis (literally; the girl with forty braids) who is held in captivity by a Div (a demonic spirit in Persian mythology) in a beautiful garden. The demon is never seen or heard by the girl. The demon has deprived the garden from the water and every body suffers. He is invulnerable. He can be destroyed only if one could find and break its "bottle of life", it's secret and magic source of life power.