The main idea of this series was to collect useless and disposable things. To take the first step, I collected papers made of recycled paper paste. Then I came across some old groaning amongst my notes that were meant to throw away or burn – for me, they functioned like what psychotherapists might call psychic nausea. And then I was drawn to cloth pieces with which I used to wipe out oil paint in my studio and oftentimes threw out with other stuff.

The series before you is a result of exploration amongst odds and ends on the corner of my studio and sometimes in the back of my mind that otherwise would have wasted away.

Ali Shayesteh