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- Mohsen Mohammadi
He said, “What is complaint? A thousand times I have opened my soul like water to the fish — and what is that but longing itself?”
Just as a fish is immersed in water, seekers on the path of truth, too, yearn with such thirst to reach their Beloved. Yet the fish also symbolizes hope, life, and the material world—flowing and gliding within the bowl of the spoon (“Like a fish upon the water, restless in love’s longing”).
On the handle of the ladle, golden and rose-hued birds soar toward their eternal and divine love—a bridge between the material realm and the spiritual one.
For its possessor, it whispers: “I am a bird, a nightingale, a parrot—if they ask me to sing in another voice, I cannot, for this is my language.”
The work seeks to embody these truths within everyday life, as our ancestors once did, allowing the metal itself—through hammer and chisel—to speak, flow, and carry the essence of those timeless meanings.
