When life throws you in between unthinkable scenarios and leaves a tunnel to escape, you choose to acceplit the way it is. Davood Roostaei is the perfect example of living life at your terms while striving to perform with passion. Roostaei was based in Iran, where he was born and chose art as his major. However, he had to compromise his art studies due to the Iranian Revolution in 1979. He was deeply affected by the political fiasco, which he expressed through his art. However, he had to go to jail for art which was deemed to be subversive by the regime. He later realized that his artistic route could not be that of the standard realistic way of depicting the world based on what he had seen and experienced.