An Upright Memory

Year : 2016
Dimension : 37 × 24 × 11 cm (Height × Length × Depth)
Weight : 3160 grams
Edition Size : Unique piece
Base Price : Sold
Artist : Mahmood Rafati
Material : Natural wood, affixed stones and tile, wooden base
Technique : Sculpting with natural wood to form an upright figure, incorporating affixed stones and tiles as symbolic elements of memory and experience, and placing it on a plain wooden base. The technique blends raw, native materials to reflect the connection between past and present, highlighting scars as marks of lived history

A bird stands atop an aged trunk, resting on fragments of stones and tiles — not as burdens, but as markers. *An Upright Memory* is a dialogue between past and present, between ashes and ascent. It embodies a person who stands tall with the broken pieces of experience, not against the past, but upon its shoulders. Each stone a scar, now an adornment.