“My dissatisfaction with reality has made its reappearance for some time in my practice. In Being There series (Vol. 1,2 &3), like my old mural size drawings I turned my attention to Sufi’s seven valleys of spirituality.

Consequently individual quest became my main topic of research, however, I felt liable to repeat my experiences with different disguised to comment on my feeble being (last stage of sufi). On the level of perception, perhaps, this need for repetition justified itself in the process of achieving Baudelaire’s “stereotype” . But there was another and more significant reason for my semiotic polyphony, which was linked to the struggle against the feeling of psychological and social alienation experienced in exile. Being There series (Vol.3) defined this type of alienation as a phenomenon caused by a process of social degeneration, an ineluctable crisis of a society at once unable to die or renewed itself.

What was left accessible to all, was Love, or the strong sense for rebirth after losing Love. What Rumi the Persian mystical philosopher prescribes as the strongest urge in selfless life “Being There” in the life of a Sufi.” Sam Shahsahabi, 2006.