Roots is a two-person show of two-dimensional and three-dimensional works: Shaqayeq Arabi whose three-dimensional installations are about being uprooted from mother earth. Fereydoun Ave’s works are two-dimensional mix media on paper and canvas about the concentration of energy in winter roots; Subterranean is the atmosphere, the life force becoming dense. This is a winter show about earth, its nurturing powers and the respect it deserves as a sacred element. It is the mother that gives birth in the spring. The two artists even though they have worked separately, have observed the same properties in roots and how essential they are to connecting man to its nurturing source, earth. As two Iranians who have been uprooted from their motherland and have had to lay down roots elsewhere they have experienced first hand this trauma.