After graduating from pharmacy school, I was required to spend a year working in a remote, deprived region to receive my degree. I was sent to Salas-e Babajani, a small border province in Kermanshah, far from everything and everyone I knew. During that year of isolation, I enrolled in an online photography course from the University of Michigan and began turning my solitude into images.

What first caught my attention were the power cables stretching endlessly across the landscape. Their stark lines cut through untouched hills and silent skies, forming a strange dialogue between nature and human intrusion. I became obsessed with this juxtaposition, the fragile beauty of an inviolate land interrupted by the geometry of wires.

This series became my way of enduring distance, of resisting the loneliness that filled my days. Each photograph carries the mood of that time: alienation, sadness, longing, and the small flickering moments of peace and connection that appeared in between.