I had asked women to send their cut hair for me to create a few artworks about women and I received this hair from a 15-year-old girl. When I was creating this piece, I was thinking about all 15-year-old girls from all centuries. About how were the conditions for a 15-year-old girl in the past and what traditional and social limits surrounded them? I remembered my mother. She married at 15 and a year later she was a mother. My thoughts flew around the youth joy she never had. I thought about my 15. When I was ashamed about the natural changes in my body and my nonsense efforts to hide my body’s prominences. I thought about a 15-year-old girl that I could have. How she would think and do, how I would mothering her, and how I would help her on her way to gender equality? A fight that has been ongoing for more than 200 years and still we have a long way ahead.

This work is created by hair embroidery, inspired by Iranian brickwork architecture, and shows the long way we have come. Women fought with gender inequality through centuries and this work shows an Iranian arcade brickwork design that its braids began to unbraid. Representing how we changed gender inequality brick by brick and still going on.