I choose three images and printed them digitally on foam boards and cut them into a jigsaw puzzle. In 2018, when I was working with the autumnal energy, I rediscovered and recycled them into this series of works. Archetypal heroes tend to be one-dimensional but in fact they, like everyone else, are puzzles but don't fit together easily.

Fereydoun Ave continues on “Rostam in Dense Pollution”: “These are also a recycled series that took three years to come together —mixed media and collage and silk screen prints. Pollution is a general but dense and ever-worsening concept; these works are atmospheric pieces.”