
About this work / story layer
The story inside Living Flame
I imagined this woman as both a person and a candle. The body stands upright, but it also burns, because I wanted the image to hold the cost of resistance as well as its power. The phrase Woman Life Freedom is placed on the candle itself so the slogan becomes part of the body, not just a message beside it. I placed the Azadi Tower in the darkness behind her because some forms of freedom remain visible only when someone risks lighting the space around them. Hannah Arendt believed freedom comes alive through action in the world, not only as an idea in the mind. That thought guided me here. Some women are forced to burn in order to make a hidden horizon visible for everyone.



