Untitled and Common Sound

Paris Mahtosh

Photography

2009

Dialouge is everywhere. Not just among the Homo sapiens. It's here to be observed in the entire universe. All we have to do is to listen. As long as we are ready to listen, there are things calling us into a dialouge. So let's just listen.

I imagined a player, plays a Daf, one of the oldest musical instruments with about 2000 years of known history, accompanied by another player who plays an Electric guitar, one of the modern age inventions of the mankind in the history of musical instruments, which I believe is the King of the instruments. Surprisingly enough, the first instrument is invented by Iranians and the other one by Americans!

"No matter where I am, the Sky is mine." Wrote the famous Iranian poet Sohrab Sepehri. The sky has no borders for individuals. Unlike the earth, nobody could buy a piece of sky and make it his/her own property. The sky is ours all, the sky belongs to all human beings. It's like a big fat kind shelter that unites us all. This was how I came to the Sky Factor in the photographs."

Collaborators:

Matthew Contos, Marie Janiszewski, & The Foot

The unique ability of the arts to transcend language provides the opportunity to relate to one another.