Faculty of Art

Drawing and Painting: Digital Painting and Expanded Animation

Mahnaz Nezarati

Harf Noush حرف نوش

Focusing on female identity, “حرف نوش” Harf Noush is a short experimental mixed media animation using traditional paint on glass technique and frame by frame animation in Photoshop exploring the complex relationships between women through a common and seemingly mundane ritual of having tea.

“Focusing on female identity, “حرف نوش” Harf Noush is a short experimental mixed media animation using traditional paint on glass technique and frame by frame animation in Photoshop exploring the complex relationships between women through a common and seemingly mundane ritual of having tea. This animation continues a larger body of work from Women’s series, in which I have been mainly zooming in on female interactions and revealing the impact of different factors on the relationships amongst and between Iranian women. “حرف نوش” Harf Noush utilizes elements associated with femininity, particularly teacups, textile patterns and female figures in a dreamy-like space by employing representational and abstract painting techniques throughout this short animation. “حرف نوش” Harf Noush is a combination of a noun, حرف Harf (word, speech), and an infinitive verb نوش Noush (to drink). Through conversations, which can have a positive or negative impact on us, we unconsciously absorb the words much in the same way as we drink the tea, and through this simple ritual we take each word to our hearts: حرف گوی و حرف نوش و حرفهاهر سه جان دارند اندر انتها مولوی“The speaker of the word and the hearer of the word and the words (themselves)—all three become spirit in the end.” Rumi (1207 –1273)”