What Is Love...

“What Is Love” is originally series of 13 hand-drawn, detailed, small-scale paintings (15 × 15 cm), created in 2014 using the traditional Persian painting technique of gouache and watercolor.
The works present nude figures, stripped of identity, within colorful, utopian scenes. At first glance, the images appear simple, yet their meticulous detail—painted dot by dot—reveals both patience and an undercurrent of sorrow. Through this process, the artist explores multiple interpretations of love, inviting others to define it in a single sentence, and ultimately arriving at one conclusion: “Love is different for everyone.” Rather than a confession of personal pain, the series constructs a dreamlike universe—playful, absurd, and fragile—that reflects both the longing for love and the distance between dreams and reality.