When I was nine years old I had my first encounter with miniatures. My mother and I were in a Bazaar in Iran visiting the stall of a painter of Persian miniatures. Here was something new to me - the idea of the preciousness and skill of being able to make a tiny painting, maybe even a panoramic landscape, which would not be much larger than 5 x 7 inches. The legend was that the most famous Persian miniaturist used a single cat whisker as a brush! Perhaps this was the beginning of my fascination with smaller images - Persian and Indian miniatures as well as Medieval illuminations.

In this series of paintings I decided to use compositions largely inspired from Indian Miniatures. Using this format allows me to work more freely with the things I love ; color, the human figure,decorative motifs and Tango. The stylized tango poses seemed to fit well in the spaces usually filled with cavorting Indian deities and Demi - gods.