I Confess, Revelations in Exile – Kooshyar Karimi candlestick They’d chat and paint Mindla’s

They’d chat and paint Mindla’s nails

He patted me and whispered

an art form uniquely capable of carrying forward meaning from the past

later published as The Idea of Home

The plate is handmade in Australia (glass dishes are imported)

I Confess, Revelations in Exile – Kooshyar Karimi candlestick They’d chat and paint Mindla’sWhilst many stories have come out of Iran in the last few decades, nothing matches the grittiness of this portrayal of life in the crumbling alleyways and damp cellars of an Iranian slum district The extreme poverty and desperation, and the regular betrayals and compromises, even within families, in the fight for survival. Born on the back seat of a police car in the subzero temperatures of a bleak and icy winters night, Karimi summons extraordinary