Trees: Love, Rooted in Darkness

This piece merges traditional calligraphy with symbolic visual storytelling. The word “عشق” (Love) weaves itself across a dark background of fragmented words and patterns, while a golden cypress tree emerges — glowing quietly like a flame in the night.

The cypress, a timeless Persian symbol of resilience and grace, here becomes a vessel for love itself. Born from letters, rooted in shadow, and rising in light, the tree stands tall as a metaphor for the enduring presence of love amidst chaos and obscurity.

The visual contrast — light against dark, form against void — explores the poetic tension between illusion and essence, between what we see and what we feel