Mehrdad Rashidi
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There is commonly a certain wistfulness to these images, reflecting both the in-
terrelatedness of things and their profound physical separateness, together
with the spiritual struggle for resolution of the one into the other; a sense that
is emphasized in Rashidi’s work by the presence of hybrid creatures (heads-
as-petals, bird-human figures, head-footers and other mythical inventions) and
more amorphous fusions of forms. These are truly beautiful works, with a sub-
tlety and uncanny presence that speak anew with each approach from the open
viewer. They are windows into another psychic place.
Professor Colin Rhodes is Dean of Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney
and author of Outsider Art: Spontaneous Alternatives

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