Our present is inextricably linked with our past, in such a way that through
photographs we can predict a past we have never seen.
In fact, the recording of photographic images of things, people and places shows the past as well as the future of the Past, which can give us the possibility of historical judgment.
Furthermore, in my opinion, what’s very important is that the issue of “remembering” with the aid of photos, even if they are not considered as valid documents.
Besides, the most important reason for me to proceed this series is the impression of “soil” and generally the value and position of “land and nature”; When the only thing that remains from the past is not a person, nor buildings, nor things, but a piece of soil, it has become a sacred memorial to preserve and remember something or someone who has been lost.
Places, as the only remaining witnesses of history and unlike the endless wounds and sufferings of humans, can restore and bring back all their degradations. And finally, after the passing of years, decades, and centuries, we will observe glorious and permanent landscapes in which mortal human once lived.

“When the body temperature reaches forty-two, a person is dead. so accept that the temperature of the dead is forty-two degrees.”
Symphony of the Dead, Abbas Maroufi.

Presented in Gallery 009821
September 2022