ABOUT

My practice is an exploration of unsettling, disorienting, and transformative human experiences. Drawing on a rich inheritance of mysticism and storytelling, I carry the aesthetic and interior transmissions of my Iranian heritage and the guidance of intuition. 

Utilizing layered methods of painting and printmaking, I create sculptural costumes, textile collages, banners, and illuminated installations. Through figuration and abstraction, I build alternative architectures of memory, in which identity moves fluidly through transcendence and disfiguration. 

Costume is not simply an expression of identity; it becomes a living presence and a vessel for transformation. Similarly, my banners describe internal and bodily experience through their weight and suspension.  

I begin my process from an intuitive place, using drawing and monotype to give shape to what is felt but not always seen. These early stages allow accident and intention to meet, creating unexpected outcomes that I develop into larger pieces. Through material choices such as layered fabrics, stitched surfaces, and glowing elements, I build otherworldly environments that elicit transformation. 

My practice centers the figure of outsiders and travelers between worlds. My figures are a theatrical embodiment of the human experience and yield a vulnerability and agency characteristic of those who inhabit margins and are marked as alien. These characters build new possibilities out of difference. 

Science fiction, surrealism, and parallel realities influence my work. I build spaces where the past and future, visible and invisible, material and imagined, collapse into one another, in a search for worlds just beyond the concrete, material one around us.