Shishegaran's world is a vivid matrix of fluid dynamics and channelled complexity, where word, pattern, geometry and colour synthesise into a torrid visual language. Harnessing the myriad cultural legacies of his native Iran, he shoots fragments of the Orient through the contemporary prism of pop art and modernism with a freestyle nod to graffiti woven into the ride. Exploring the essence of line, pattern and subjective meaning within a set of personal 'rules' about the courtship of calligraphy, his bold tapestries of form distil into profoundly human moments as hints of portraiture peek out from behind the oscillating folds. Zahra Faridany-Akhavan PhD