Slout Birds in Spring of Memfatna

Sluots Birds in Spring of Memfatna is an original painting realized by Iranian Painter and Poet Parimah Avani in 2021.

Acrylic on ivory-colored cardboard.

Hand-signed and dated.

Very good conditions.

The artwork is poetically created through expressionistic brush strokes. The harmonious background refers to a mysterious spring with vivid  and dynamic colors

Sluots birds are fantasy bird of Avani’s Antalus world Building and were published firstly in the book” The Magic Scroll of Antalus”, The Antalus world is an archaic literally continent with its proper created handwriting and the cultural ritual world and many lands with thousands of different tradition and many created creatures and healing plants. 

Memfatna is one of these Lands that has the biggest Magic Garden in the Antalus world with thousands of strange and exotic plants and vegetables. Here is what Avani writes about Sluots ”One-winged birds come to the eyes of those who hope to discover the past and its meanings in the future and other lives, and us? We are the ones who see the sluts.

Slouts are landless birds.
Slouts mate between four and six in the morning.
Slouts are silent.
Slouts never sing.
Slouts are colorless, so they are not easily seen.
They dream all of their lives to be in the Garden of Memfatna”

The various layer is made perfectly by the expression of brushes, which makes this series unique: is deeply behind the dynamic emotion of each bird with its abstract form.

Her artworks artwork has evident characteristics, firstly strongly inspired by Tachisme's “Abstraction lyrique" and artworks of Henri Michaux, and Hans Hurting, and secondly, oriental calligraphy and intuitively transformation of oriental features into contemporary language by subtle application.


Antalus World building is visual and literary production that will be continued by the Fourth book of Avani “Healing Castel” novel and the First book of this series “ The magic Scroll of Antalus” published in 2020 in has been among the finalists for the “Shamlu” literature and Poetry award in 2021.

Her artworks are inspired by calligraphy and have strong attention to creating new letters and forms by deconstructing them, motifs, and repetition harmoniously in a neat composition,  each reminding mysterious words or rebuilding new facts in the mentioned world. The style of Persian calligraphy and her literary knowledge let her create a visual poem in an expressionistic style, which is congruent with the title.

The story behind the title and world-building in her artworks gives profound meaning to visual representation. 

The use of space and maintaining an empty background has been made to emphasize the solitude and loneliness of abstract creatures and at the same time connect to oriental calligraphy in which empty space has the same value as the filled one, succeeding to create pure incarnation.


Parimah Avani (Born1988) is an Iranian poet, writer, and visual artist, since 2009 has lived and studied in Italy, after graduating from the Fine Art Academy of Rome in painting continued her research on “Aesthetic of Talisman and Magics Text and Craft” and took her Ph.D. title in the Sapienza University of Rome in 2020. From her have been published books and illustrations of books. Her main camp study has been mythology, ritual, and magic, and her art is strongly connected to the transfer of local and traditional folk art and its symbols into the contemporary language in a poetic style. In the last series of  “The Poems of Struggle and Mourning” a personal exhibition curated by Leda Bartolucci in Turin, Italy, Bagni Pubblici, 2022, evidently, She Chose Persian calligraphy for this transformation.