Most of these paintings are some pictorial rewritings of literature pieces and destinies of the writers, thus are associated with words, names, tales, and stories. I am an adherent of the tradition that still is aspire and impatient for telling and narrating through pictures -the tradition that wishes to tell the stories of what had been read, heard, and experienced. And I am thinking about how a reckless line on canvas surface, showing the edge of a river, is able to evoke the impetuous handwriting of a hazy-minded writer before his banishment.

Ali Golestaneh, November 2023.