Photo From San Francisco Magazine With Junko
Photography is the stolen moment. The lighting and the framing of the subject were simple after years of painting. He’d succeeded in capturing a great cultural legacy after much hardship and adventure, but not his dream – Diran had stopped painting.
Painting is pure creation, a blank canvas in an empty universe devoid of direction or stars to light the way, where the painter is god, and creates his universe with his imagination. After 10 years of never holding a brush, he returned to oil painting to explore his own symbols, to release a series of paintings he titled, "A Week Of Seduction".
A natural story teller both in person and in pen, Diran’s writings include his adventures in the gem trade and his trips to Burma.
