Spring Enters the Garden
The season returns. So do we.
Family gathers in a Persian garden as spring returns. Turquoise surfaces, flowering plants and water create a setting shaped by renewal and the traditions of Nowruz. Across generations, gestures are repeated and memories take on new life.
A family gathers in a garden shaped by water, flowers and the return of spring. Older and younger generations share a setting in which renewal becomes something experienced together.
The catalogue places this chapter within Persian traditions, drawing on Nowruz and the ordered spaces of the chahar bagh garden. Turquoise surfaces, water channels, hyacinths and cypress give the scene its particular vocabulary.
Repeated gatherings connect one year with another. What feels familiar to an elder becomes part of a child’s own store of memories. This is the collection’s Persian chapter, with its own distinct cultural setting.
One of the featured works of Series 6, Malak's Iranian composition is constructed around Nowruz, renewal and the Persian garden. A grandmother, or family matriarch, occupies the garden alongside younger generations. Around them, spring appears almost ceremonially: hyacinths, sabzeh, pomegranate and cypress emerge among turquoise architectural surfaces, water channels and geometrically ordered planting.
The setting draws upon the chahar bagh tradition of the Persian garden, where water, architecture, planting and geometry create an environment that is at once physical and contemplative. Within this space, Malak introduces the symbolism surrounding Nowruz. Rather than crowding the work with ceremonial objects, he treats renewal as an atmosphere: reflected light, flowering plants, colour, abundance and the presence of family.
Persian carpet geometry quietly echoes the garden's structural order, while a mirror or book of poetry becomes the inherited object within the composition — connecting domestic ritual to Iran's extraordinary literary tradition. Iranian sand anchors this world of water and flowering vegetation to the earth beneath it.
Spring Enters the Garden is ultimately concerned with recurrence.
Seasons return. Families gather again. Rituals are repeated.
What one generation remembers, another learns to perform.
Maqam by the Tigris
