I made a diorama to show the way that bread was baked traditionally in Iran.

Unemployment and underemployment was a fact of life. Many male and female laborers struggled all their lives not to get ahead, but to merely scrape by.

Fresh in my memory from 70 years ago is nan-e sangak (bread, stone baked). It was the most popular bread in Shiraz.

In Persia, water is a sign of light and peace and a goldfish is a sign of motivation and agility. In many homes, there was a pond of blue tiles.