Whispers in the Wool

This installation emerges from the quiet tension between texture and transformation. Crafted entirely from wool, the piece visualizes a subtle metamorphosis: coarse strands pressed into dense felt gradually soften and unfurl, evoking the delicate presence of hair. This material transition is inspired by a verse from Bidel Dehlavi:

مو چو بالید پشم باشد
پشم چون بالید موست

“When hair ripens, it becomes wool —
and when wool awakens, it returns as hair.”

Here, wool is more than fiber—it becomes a metaphor for inner metamorphosis, a body of matter holding memory, tenderness, and change. Embedded in the felt is this verse, needle felted as if the poem itself is surfacing from within the material. The work was created during a period of deep reflection in the Himalayas, where spiritual quietude and the physical labor of making merged.

The gesture of shaping felt into a form that mimics hair is not imitation but transformation. It suggests that even the most unrefined matter—when compressed, heated, and guided—carries the potential to return to something soft, sentient, and alive.

Now permanently installed at Spacehouse Himalayas, Whispers in the Wool remains as a tactile echo of this inner and outer journey—a meditation on becoming, on returning, and on the silent voice of fiber.