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This mural, which is part of the Dear Iran project, was inspired by what Dear Iran’s founder Reza Moazezi, had created with the tulip. The tulip is a flower that has symbolism in Iran, but it is also a flower I find to be really beautiful. I use flowers in a lot of my art because I find that they are very universal and help to bridge gaps culturally. Every different nation, every different culture, and every different religion finds flowers beautiful and symbolically powerful. Flowers are about hope and resilience. So with what’s going on in Iran, doing my version of the tulip growing from the barbed wire was a way of supporting the project. It was a way of using some of the same iconography that people will see in the Dear Iran project and showing a bit of solidarity on human rights no matter where you are.
-Shepard
“Someone very special has stood up for the voiceless people of Iran at a time when no one outside of our community really has. This great human, who is so comfortable in his humanity that he is not worried about how others perceive his activism.
At a time when they are trying hard to separate us, he not only stood up, his heroism has cascaded a whole culture to stand up and bring awareness to the atrocities that are happening to the people of Iran. Thank you Mr Shepard Fairey for being who you are.”
– Reza Moazezi, Founder of Dear Iran
Check out the mural at The Fameyard on 7753 Melrose Ave in Los Angeles, CA.
Photos by Galen Oakes
