About Under the Earth, Over the Moon series
The series Under the Earth, Over the Moon, is a personal adaptation of a true local story-the story of a friendship between a young girl named Mina and a Persian leopard. Mina, who lived in a village called Kandelous more than one hundred years ago, experienced a peaceful friendship with a leopard. As local people say, during the season of collecting firewood, her beautiful voice attracted the leopard, and gradually they became friends. The story turned into a tragedy when the leopard was shot by a villager who was in love with Mina."…You may find Mina somewhere in a painting, or me in her place in another piece, or even none of us but still sense something that has remained of us, something like a deep sorrow and a deeper love...". Under the Earth, Over the Moon is not a lament for the loss of an animal in a far-off village, but rather for the loss of every living creature whose species has been alive for thousands or millions of years and now is suffering from our behavior toward nature. It is a grief for such a global attitude that threatens the future of humans as well as the whole life chain on Earth. This universal ignorance has now led to climate change, which is going to shake and wake us pretty soon! Mina and the Leopard is just one episode of a very long story, and it hasn't ended yet. We, the people, are writing the rest of it. — Naeemeh Naeemaei
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