Let Her Be Free

Icy and Sot, “Let Her Be Free”; 2 color screen Print on 110 lb french paper; 20×20 inch; Edition of 500; Signed and numbered (2018).
After the free Installation at Nuart Festival 2014 in Stavanger, Norway and the December 2014 painting-Stencil spray paint on canvas; 78 × 54 in (198.1 × 137.2 cm); ICY and SOT; This is a unique work. $25,000.
The image was used as the cover for the book, “Let Her Be Free: Icy and Sot: Stencil Artists from Iran” Paperback – June 1, 2016, by Icy and Sot (Author)
A portrait of an Iranian woman staring confidently into the horizon. Where once may have been her hijab now lingers a hundred birds about to take flight from a web of branches. When one bird soars the others will follow, signaling a great migration toward freedom. Let Her Be Free is a foray into this woman’s story as she frees herself from restrictions in her country. It is also the lens through which we may view the remarkable journey of ICY (b.1985) and SOT (b.1991), two Iranian activist-artist brothers who fled the persecution and censorship they experienced in their home country in the hopes their stencil practice may bloom.