Published January 16, 2018 in Art Practical

Inside Linfield Gallery, skyward-jutting tulips in sheer sacks of soil cluster together. Blur one’s eyes and the sight becomes strata of hues: the chocolate brown of mulch, the jewel green of leaves, the flowers’ loud carmine, fire-toned like a polluted sunrise. For the 2017 exhibition The Points of Departure at Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon, Tannaz Farsi transplanted one thousand tulips indoors to bloom at the spring equinox, which marks Norouz, Iranian New Year.