J. Sybylla Smith, In Conversation with Stacy Mehrfar

Written By Sybylla Smith

Episode #30 Summary:

An immersive, sensual exploration of perception, place and belonging.  

Episode Notes 

Multi-media artist Stacy Mehrfar presents a collision of sensory experience in an actualization of the emotional terrain of migration. Portraits, landscapes, and still life images are purposely devoid of signifiers to place, time and space, inviting a collective encounter of dislocation. 

In this book group, Stacy Mehrfar discusses, among other things:

  • Picturing emotion

  • The purpose of a portrait — is it about the subject or the photographer?

  • Importance of place and how landscape defines us

  • Subjectivity of color

  • The  power of montage

  • The invaluable role of a book desinger


Referenced in the episode

Documentation of TMBTE Immersive Video Installation

A Collective Performance, TEDx Live Stream

GOSTBooks

FIlm Form and the Film Sense

American Palimpsests 

Tall Poppy Syndrome with Amy Stein

Naomi Riddle - Running Dog Art

Published by Gost Books

Also see: Stacy kindly sent links to Avinu Malkeinu renditions and Farsi music from her childhood that are shared below.

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