Identity. Who am I?

Am I living the legacy of my given identity? Or am I living the fiction of it? Or both?

These are the questions which kept bouncing into my head since long ago. And as some answers came, so did more questions. I thus began to question the identity of the words we use to describe the limits of our identity.

When and by whom are first told something is accepted or not accepted? I like to take the chance and ask But Why? But How?

When are we told that something is correct or incorrect? I like to take the chance and ask But Why? But How?

When we are told this is reasonable and that is unreasonable! I like to ask But Why? But How?

Words make the worlds we live in, in accordance with certain beliefs and traditions. I would like to take the chance and experience the world before the words and traditions describe it.

I don't want to believe the words without knowing first-hand that they are true.

I would like to speak with the like-minded seekers, those who are looking for their true self that may be different from what they were taught to believe about themselves or are seeking the essence of the word rather than what it describes.

But Why? But How?... Who am I?... Who are you?... Roshi

Different cultures and people and their interpretations of happiness and life in general has been my main inspiration to pursue art as means of demonstrating emotions on canvas. Colours can tell tales. Abstraction is my language to employ the colours, shapes with different mediums and techniques to transfer emotions. I use painting as a means to capture fragments of human nature and its positive attitudes to the world of haste, brutality.
 
My style portrays both the universality of human emotion and the simplistic and immediate of those passions while trying to join eastern and western art forms, to awaken those universal emotions.
Roshanak Khalilian

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