Derakht, by Hossein Maher

Derakht — Tree

Derakht

Acrylic on cardboard · 76.5 × 57 cm · ۱۳۸۶ / 2007

A slender trunk opens into a dense round crown of gold and olive leaves, each leaf laid down as a separate mark. Around it the ground carries lines of hand-written script that never quite resolve into words, and a field of small dots gathers at the tree's foot like seed, or rain, or counting. From the Plants series.

Draft copy — pending review