Protest Art, Graffiti & Persian Identity

The Graphiti T-Shirts project sits at the intersection of several visual traditions: the revolutionary energy of Latin American street art, the ancient authority of Persian Nastaliq script, and the Warholian democratisation of art through mass-production.

The calligraphy — drawn by Giti's father — connects the contemporary to the ancestral, making each shirt a dialogue across generations. The phrases chosen are deliberately vernacular, even slang: دختر ایرونی مثل گل (Iranian girl like a flower), پشمااام OMG, بد گل گریه نکن (bad flower don't cry).

This collision of registers — elevated calligraphic form, lowly street slang — mirrors the collision of traditions: Persian classical, South American street, American pop. The t-shirt as the most democratic of canvases.