The Poetry and Art of Michal (Mitak) Mahgerefteh
Original India ink paintings & Memoir in Verse
"If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change."
— Gautama Buddha
Gathered Blooms Series
Gathered Blooms was inspired by the vast flower fields behind my grandmother's house, where endless blooms created some of my earliest and most enduring memories. Wandering through those fields, I experienced flowers not as individual specimens but as a living landscape—an ever-changing tapestry of color, light, and fragrance that shaped my sense of wonder.
Atmospheric Blooms
The Atmospheric Bloom series begins with my original photography from visits to botanical gardens and travels around the world. Through digital transformation and mixed media sensibility, each flower is reimagined as an atmosphere of color, light, and movement, hovering between realism and abstraction. These blooms become luminous, fragile, and constantly shifting.
Fleeting Blooms Series
Fleeting Blooms emerged from quiet meditation sessions at sunset, when light softens, colors deepen, and the boundaries between earth and sky begin to dissolve. In those brief moments, flowers appeared to me not as fixed forms, but as movement, energy, and memory, connected to the vast rhythms of the cosmos. Their shapes began to echo distant galaxies, drifting light, and unseen forces, suggesting a world in which every bloom is part of something larger, mysterious, and constantly changing.
