In 2000 I spent three months travelling around Iran. These images were taken on a road trip in the south of the country with a university student I met in Kashan. They are a response to the conversations I had with people about their country. Many referred to themselves as Persians having more in common with Zoroastrianism than the political and social ideologies of the contemporary Islamic Republic. With high youth unemployment and heroine addiction, feeling ostracised from the political process, fearing the secret police and 'hard liners' - they saw them selves as disassembled Persia.

In a sense the piles of rubble are about ambiguous futures, they could be memorials or monuments - endings or beginnings. Are these forms trying to replicate the mountains in the background or are they eruptions or resistance?