Mahsa Sorouri
Nature’s Cadence
Mahsa Sorouri is an Iranian born artist who moved to america just a week after she was married. Within her interview she shared how was always surrounded by art growing up as her father was a painter. She talks a little about her first moved to Malaysia where she learned to speak English and then later moved to the states. She shared that she decided to leave Iran because she wanted to seek more oportunities to share her story and work. During the time of the video she had two projects titled “Naures Candance” and “7500 miles” both dealing with her story of being an ex-patriot living in southern California.
Mahsa Sorouri has an entire garden of succulents. Within it she propagates her plants to form new plants and build her garden. Some of the plants had grown without roots while others were extreme over achievers and had roots digging far into the soil. She explains how the new plant uses the petal in which they are propagated from as food and genetic material before shriveling up and dying but not before an entirely new plant is formed.
The story behind the plants is her experience when she first moved to southern California. She expressed how she was so home sick and alone where she couldn’t relate to any of the people or even art. She began to investing her plants but she noticed that while she was struggling to grow as a person or thrive her plants too began to struggle. She began to really invest and nurture her plants and eventually her plants began to thrive as well. They inspired her to be strong and patient. She feels like her plants really reflect her experiences.
I too grow and propagate succulents and I related with Mahsa a lot. After months sometimes of waiting and nurturing them it can be extremely rewarding to see new baby plants form. It was interesting hearing about her experiences being reflected into her plants as when she was lonely and out of her element so began her plants. I tried to think back to see if I had similar experiences and found that my plants did the worst when I was at my lowest also. When I began to notice change in my life so did my plants as well. I had never consider it before but our experiences were similar in that way.
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