Everyone Follows Something by Luckybamero
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Medium: Digital painting, archival fine art print on paper
Dimensions: 30 x 30 cm
Edition production year: 2026
Edition of 5
Price: $250.00 USD
Status: available
“Everyone Follows Something” began with a memory of the daily market in Babolsar, a place where ordinary life gathers in all its warmth, noise, contradiction, and tenderness. I wanted to preserve not only the market itself, but the feeling of encountering a person whose quiet presence carries a world of stories. I placed the seated vendor among herbs, eggplants, chickens, woven baskets, and hanging brooms, allowing these familiar details to become signs of work, survival, and belonging. His red shirt brings a steady human warmth to the worn textures and earthy colors around him. On the cabinet behind him, symbols of identity appear beside marks left by the city, suggesting that everyone carries something they believe in, follow, protect, or hope to be recognized through. The unfinished edges and handwritten notes keep the image close to memory, where some moments remain vivid while others dissolve. Through this piece, I hope viewers feel invited into a real, lived corner of Babolsar and pause without judgment. I want the work to hold space for dignity, individuality, and the many forms of belonging that quietly coexist in everyday life.
Why collect this work?
A tightly rendered market scene gives way to sketch-like margins, framing everyday belonging as something remembered, recorded and still unresolved.
- Luckybamero describes a practice shaped by queer identity and Iranian cultural memory. Here, that concern appears through pride emblems placed among ordinary signs of trade rather than separated from daily life.
- The seated vendor anchors the crowded square composition. His frontal gaze and red shirt hold their ground against chickens, herbs, baskets and brooms, while the cabinet’s handwritten declaration, “Luckybamero just entered the city,” turns the market into a site of self-inscription.
- The documented digital painting is presented as an archival fine art print on paper. Digital mark-making permits dense descriptive detail alongside deliberately incomplete outlines and handwritten annotations, making finished image and provisional record coexist.
- The artist identifies Babolsar’s daily market as the work’s remembered source. Encountering this print brings queer visibility into a specific economy of labor and exchange, where identity is carried among goods, animals and accumulated urban marks.
About the Artist
Luckybamero
Luckybamero is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: digital-art. Based in Tehran, Iran.
Nationality: Iranian
My work explores the intersection of queer identity, Iranian cultural memory, and the environment.
