Where is the Friend’s House?
Kooche Magazine Competition
Awards and Honors: Honorable Mention
Type: Competition › Illustration
Status: Conceptual
Location: Iran
Year: 2022
Type: Competition › Illustration
Status: Conceptual
Location: Iran
Year: 2022
The language of poetry is more than just counting words; it involves a single image and scene that brings the poet’s feelings and thoughts to the reader. The extent of similarities and differences depends on the reader’s perception of the poem and the poet’s use of language.
The poem is divided into two parts, with the first verse asking for the address of a friend’s house and the second verse asking for the way to the destination. The length of each verse aligns with our conception of the question and answer, with each question being short and the answer usually longer due to the respondent’s explanation. This creates tension between ignorance and knowledge, as well as brevity and length.
An address can be fixed and unchanged, but if we seek someone who constantly changes themselves and their address, our search will go nowhere unless the dynamics are part of its nature. In this illustration, we adapt the poem “Address” and one of Sohrab’s paintings to search for the visual and conceptual connection between today’s literature and architecture.
The image is of a placeless and intertwined city that represents the architecture of our present homes. The houses that have isolated and inactivated each of these questioners remain, while only a thin and superficial shell of finding the address of a friend remains. In this intertwined network of images, we will finally continue this search in this narrative. So this movement is rotational. We who seek a “friend” are ultimately referred to as our own. Where is the friend’s house?
