Artist Information
Artist: Mahsa Soroudi
Website: http://www.mahsasoroudi.com
Project: Nature’s Cadence
About the Artist
Mahsa Sorouri is an Iranian born artist who moved to the United States. She has two projects, Nature’s Cadence and 7,500 Miles. Nature’s Cadence is a project based around the regrowth of plants, mainly succulents, after they have been moved from their original location. She watches and photographs these succulents as they go through their various stages and speeds of regrowth.
Formal Analysis
The formal Analysis of Nature’s Cadence involves the particular succulents she used and how she used them. As shown in the first picture, each succulent leaf was placed in its own section and how they grew was catalogued. Not all the succulents grew at the same speed, and some were blooming while others struggled to find roots. Overall each succulent had a different rate and type of growth, in which the leaves had found their own flow and pattern.
Content Analysis
The succulents are removed from their original plant and given need soil and ground to attempt to grow into. She uses this to relate to her life as she moved from Tehran, and attempted to settle in America. Where the plants eventually do grow, the struggle is a reminder of herself as she went through the times where she struggled through her move. In the end, as the succulents eventually found footholds and bloomed, so did Soroudi find her own place in America.
Synthesis / My Experience
I thought Nature’s Cadence was a great project and it really was interesting to hear Soroudi talk about how her life related to that project during the interview. The interview format we did for this artist conversation, while detracts from the physical process of going to a gallery, having someone more skilled in the process of getting insightful artist questions during the interview helped me understand the project more than I think I would have otherwise.
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