To ensure the safety of the participants of the project, they cannot be identified in a public forum such as a website. However, to honour their creative efforts, we have taken images of their hands, in poses that were decided by the artists.
Double click on an image and it will pull up a slideshow. You can drag the cursor over an image to see text describing the image, written by the artist.

I’m here because I believe in my freedom; freedom to write, to speak, and to be a female. I have never been punished because I am a female in Canada, but in my country I was. I am here because one day I want to be the change in the world. I want to change the unreasonable policies that my government imposes on women. I believe that knowledge is power and that is why I am here!

I am an ex-political prisoner and I am here to support all the political prisoners. The wrong doings of the Islamic republic was not shocking for me, as I knew their inhumane thoughts and cruel actions. I knew well the behaviours they justified as being Godly. This is a God that doesn’t understand love and is so selfish that he wants all humanity to take a bow in front of his greatness. He doesn’t love, He hates. He creates only to kill later; with torture and violence. My hands in the picture is a symbol for the executions of 1988. The guards told each other that after the executions were done, they still couldn’t open the prisoner’s hands that were knotted together. The works you see here depict the pain and sufferings of all the prisoners.

I am an ex-political prisoner and a member of a victim’s family. I am here to help make a narrative that is in favour of all the victims.

I am a woman and an ex-political prisoner. I am here because I want to put an end to the dark situation in Iran. I am here because I care about the people in Iran.