"Haft Seen" is an interactive installation, commissioned by Sashar Zarif Dance Theatre, for the Kismet performance at Aga Khan Museum. 

Haft (numeral “seven” in Farsi) Seen (equivalent of the letter “S” in Arabic alphabets, س) refers to the symbolic ritual table set every year in every home in Iran to celebrate the start of the spring, a new day, or Norouz. In this symbolic arrangement, each of the seven items embodies a spiritual value, and together, the seven ritual objects manifest a mystical journey. These seven values are devotion, purity, serenity, wisdom, prosperity, transcendence, and awakening. Haft Seen, the ritual table, represents the desire to fulfill the seven spiritual values.

Haft Seen is the title of an installation, inspired by this tradition, which manifests the seven spiritual values. The installation consists of two different sheets of fabric. Based on the seven sections of the Kismet dance performance, seven compositions of letter Seen are written in Nastaliq script on the background fabric. The front fabric is a wish window that resembles life. This impression of life hides the spiritual values it contains, and reveals this component only to those who seek spiritual engagement and enlightenment. The fabric representing the wish window, the same as the fabric manifestation of real life, is an interactive piece. Audience are invited to choose a ribbon from the bowl next to the two hanging pieces, and tie their ribbon to the wish window, asking life to reveal the seven spiritual values.