I want to thank you for visiting my site. I want to take this opportunity to thank VEI Studios for its willingness to create and manage the site, as well as to thank Kasra for his patience and kindness towards me and towards my art for all these years.

I want to thank all my teachers and mentors for showing me what they have learned and letting me into their worlds. I want to thank my fellow artists and my colleagues from whom I have learned something. I want to thank all the people who have followed and/or supported my art. I want to thank my friends who through the years have helped me and encouraged me to continue my search in my world of art. Through my traveling, I am grateful to all who have offered me a place to stay and to create, as well as those in Chicago who have done the same. I thank them all.

For performance art, I want to thank all my directors, the playwrights, the producers, my fellow actors, and all the crews that I have come to meet and work with and learn from.

I also want to thank all of my doctors for helping heal my wounds so I may continue to go on. There are many healers (without considering the race or borders) who help the wounded, to ease their suffering. People who are working on preserving nature so it can regain its power and beauty back. I am humbled and thankful and blessed to have met a few of these people on this journey of mine.

I want to thank my country of birth with its beauty, its history, its culture and mystical arts and poetry, which has had an influence on me since my childhood, and I want to thank the United State of America, for giving me the opportunity to grow and allowing my art to flourish, and its beauty in its people and in each parts of its land that never ceases to surprise me.

Peace,

ario