In januari 2019 was ik artist-in-residence in de Aria Residency in Teheran, Iran. Tijdens mijn verblijf in de Aria Residency maakte ik vijf doeken met fluwelen replica's van foto's die ik in de straten van Teheran heb gemaakt; zie de pagina over Iraans fluweel op deze website voor meer informatie over dat project.

Back home in The Netherlands, I continued to collaborate with Iranian female artists and women who I’ve met during my stay in Tehran. I wanted to tell their stories that they could not easily share at home. I wanted to portray them in an anonymous way at a moment where they could truly feel free and be themselves without having to worry about any laws that they could break by simply being themselves. I asked them to send me photos of situations where they felt very happy but at the same time they would not be able to publicly share those moments or photos because of all the laws on how Iranian women should behave or dress. I transformed those photos into velvet tapestries, to honour them and their stories.

Due to the very time consuming nature of these works, over the years more and more tapestries will be added to the collection.