This came after getting acquainted with acrylic paint, a substance that I found had the amazing ability of allowing the artist to paint with both ease and transparency. I can therefore say that my true experience as a professional artist started at the time of this discovery. At the same time, the correlation between my work with painting and engraving started here: the relationship of colour and line, mass and void, shadow and light.’

Artist’s statement extracted from ‘Rafa Nasiri’s artistic trajectory’, in Rafa Nasiri, Artist Books. Milan: Skira, 2016, p. 42.