July 31st - 10:50

Title: July 31st - 10:50 Medium: Super-8 film Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Resolution: 2880 x 2160 File Type: H.264 Codec / MP4. Comments: Whenever I can make it to Boston I plan to see the Safarani twins. Farzaneh and Bahareh Safarani are fantastic artists who paint on the same canvas, and more recently direct & model for the same films. Evolving through the art forms and staying true to the painted medium while integrating novel video techniques. Projection over canvas with light onto paint. Farzaneh and Bahareh are the iconic twins who blessed the cover of my book and represent the title image of my twin portrait series, Twin Flames. The first time I met these wonderful women were at their home studio in the basement creating their photographic portraits with their paintings in 2018. Since then we all have evolved into more established artists. On this current visit to their new studio it was at a massive artist loft with their larger than life paintings! I was transported into their gentle and beautiful world of transparent red silk tones and furniture with soft olive hues. I was proud to see their development, and always supported them at their exhibitions in New York. As they always came to visit me for the Twin Flames shows too, especially the big Christies auction where their NFT along with the entire physical collection had sold for a whopping 1.1 million dollars and was the top sale of the day for the photography auction. Im grateful they were there to celebrate with me. And here we are back in their studio, 5 years later making more art together! Only this time we were shooting video, just as they had started to direct their films. Its Ironic in a way. We progressed through new processes at the same time. Like a parallel dimension that manifested into divine alignment during the concourse of our creativity. Making art with the Safarani twins was like creating a new magic trick. Playing with perspectives and perceptions. Shooting with their paintings through mirrors. Bending Reality. Blending between the realness of my photography and the surreality of their paintings. It was an homage to our past, a reenactment of when we first met surrounded by their works, through an upgraded version conveying their essence with motion. I love working with the Safarani's because they live and breath their art. The Safarani sisters embody the art they make for themselves. Even as twins there is no separation. There is a oneness within the duality. Through the frame of the cinematic lens they become a living painting, while holding a mirror to reflect the paintings they've painted.