Geometry is fundamental in Iranian-Islamic geometry. In the realm of Islamic art, the matter becomes sanctified through geometry. Girih Tiles which illustrate harmony, balance, substantial order, and purged from any kind of chance and accident is one of the representations of this geometry. These firm and rigid features in Girih Tilles encouraged me to use them as a source of deconstruction. The twist I enacted onto the Girih, which challenges the rationalist geometry, distorted its secure order and arrangement and turned it into a structure. I selected and made 7 angles which can be expanded infinitely regarding the chosen perspective. I didn’t make the main structure and it’s absent but its traces are visible in other structures. In the structures of “The Trace of the Absence” I focused on detaching from the concrete order of the geometry and truth in tradition, creating which is accompanied by desacralization and reconstruction. Any form of truth is dependent on the audience selected perspective which does not last much and loses its order in every change obtaining a new construction.

This image is a reflection of the multiplicity of truths and perceptions that arise from the contemporary perception of the truth, which conflicts with the traditional worldview. My ultimate goal in appropriating these forms’ visual possibilities is to criticize the traditional attitude to geometry and its relationship with truth along with secularizing sacred geometry.