The painter Davood Roostaei was born in 1959 in the idyllic Iranian city with the beautiful sounding name Sarab. Sarab can be translated as “Fata Morgana” and is located on the edge of the desert. We Europeans have very different ideas about the desert. At first the desert seems life-threatening to us, but on the other hand we are fascinated by the gigantic worlds and the overwhelming natural experiences associated with them. In such a fantastic environment Davood Roostael grew up.