Surrealist oil painting depicting crumbling ziggurat-like structures, elongated shadowy figures, and melting clocks under a stormy sky.

A masterful oil on canvas painting, 4:3 horizontal composition, gallery-quality fine art piece destined for a conceptual art gallery in Tehran. The artwork is a deeply personal surrealist-Dadaist vision created by a depressed Iranian artist in 2026 under wartime conditions, channeling the psychological weight of existence into layered, non-minimalist symbolism. Heavy impasto brushwork with thick, aggressive texture and deep, saturated pigments — burnt umbers, oxidized crimsons, tar blacks, and sulfurous ochres — applied with visceral, confident strokes that catch the light like scar tissue. The scene depicts a fractured dreamscape where Persian poetic motifs dissolve into dystopian architecture: crumbling ziggurat-like structures fused with organic decay, shadowy figures with elongated proportions reminiscent of Beksiński's biomechanical horror yet distinctly original, and melting clocks or warped objects that nod to Dalí's paranoia-criticism without imitation. Somewhere in the composition, a shattered clay vessel (a nod to the artist's pottery background) bleeds dark liquid into a desolate landscape, while photographic negative strips or ghostly apertures float in the sky like wounded eyes, referencing their photography practice. The atmosphere is suffocating yet intellectually dense — no yellow sensationalism, no surface-level decoration. Hidden layers of meaning drawn from Persian literature and Sufi mysticism are embedded in the decay: perhaps a withered cypress tree, a See more