This work is number two from an edition of six.

"Ideally, I would have liked to sell my Heeches in ordinary shops or supermarkets, with the ultimate dream of building a Heech factory and filling the world with Heech"
- Parviz Tanavoli (David Galloway, Ed., Parviz Tanavoli, Sculptor, Writer, Collector, Tehran, 2000)

The word Heech, meaning "nothing" in Iranian, has been a central element of Parviz Tanavoli’s work since its first sculptural manifestation in 1966. Tanavoli's self-confessed obsession with the word rests not only on its sublime curvilinear form but also on its symbolic and spiritual significance. The concept of Heech or nothingness lies at the centre of Persian Sufi practice; where the material appetitive urges of the senses must be sublimated and the ego extinguished, resulting in an absence of the self or nothingness which is the highest form of spiritual enlightenment. 

Ultimately, all our dreams, possessions, desires and objects of affection begin and end as nothing, and Tanavoli has paid the word great homage. By depicting it in all shapes, colours sizes and mediums, Tanavoli has immortalized a symbol which is both iconic and profound.