California College of the Arts

Glass frits on wood panel, 9 Panels of 18” x 24”
Theory of Survival, is a reference to a 1969 revolutionary pamphlet, The Necessity of Armed Struggle and the Refutation of the Theory of Survival, a manifesto promoting Marxist-Leninist urban guerrilla warfare against the Shah’s regime, which became the manifesto for the underground movement Fada¯’iyan-e Khalq (Devotees of the People). The nine panels are a series of publications that feature the "martyrs" of the group.