One must not invent color. By combining two colors we can reach a thousand and by combining seven we can arrive at an infinity of colors. This infinity can be repeatedly mixed to arrive at the main color so the work can begin. It’s not important that these colors don’t have name or one cannot name them. What’s important is that they exist and can be multiplied.”-Handwritings of Mr. H in José Saramago’s Manual of Painting and Calligraphy Group is the pivot of my work. In my collective projects I collaborate with artists. When Dastan Gallery asked me to put together a group exhibition, I decided to ask not only artists that I had worked with but those that I had followed but not worked with (Aisa Rashid, Ali Shayesteh, Soheil Mokhtar, MohammadHossein Zareei, and Abolfazl Harouni) to appear in this exhibition with their independent works. How can you bring a group of artists with different approaches, viewpoints, and cosmologies into a mix? How can you bring consistency to so much diversity and multiplicity? Despite their differences, each one of these artists has a nature that connect her or him to another–the nature (of) art. From the outset, and without prior arrangements, works of some artists were similar in terms of form and content, which goes to show that people living in the same era have similar preoccupations. This seems to be the spirit of the era, its zeitgeist, connecting people through shared concerns. By offering a subject, Nature of Things brings together diverse artists to +2.