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We Are That Poppy Born of Fire-
Hafez
We Are That Poppy Born of Fire-
Hafez
Digital print on Japanese paper, handsewn thread, batting
13 x 40 inches
2013

The above title is the translation of a line from the 14'th Century Persian poet which my father loved and wrote in his letters and notes. I embroidered the enlarged handwritten phrase onto the print of the airplane ticket which brought him to the US in his final trip from Iran in the early 80's.