For Wave Pool's 9th Welcome Edition, Iranian-American artist Sheida Soleimani created a field of 100 cast aluminum tulips, representing the first 100 protestors that were killed in Iran since the death of 22 year old Iranian-Kurdish martyr Mahsa Amini, who died in September of 2022 under suspicious circumstances while in police custody.

Red tulips are a long-standing revolutionary symbol in Iran, associated with martyrdom. As individual sculptures, each unique tulip lies flat on a hand-hewn piece of Tulip Poplar wood that features Soleimani’s official artist stamp.

Each tulip was originally sculpted in wax by refugee artisans Soleimani worked with from Heartfelt Tidbits, and includes a name of one of the first hundred protestors killed in Iran written onto the leaves in both Farsi and English.  

Donations of +$1,500 have the choice to receive a Tulip. See our Support Us page for more information.