ARTIST STATEMENT
My paintings are not images. They are events.
Built through scratching, scraping, and layering, the surface echoes the woven complexity of Persian rugs, where texture carries history rather than decoration.
I work through processes of destruction and reconstruction, allowing cracks, seams, and erosion to reveal time within the material. These elements are not flaws but essential to how the work holds memory.
Painting, for me, is a way of working against forgetting. Each surface preserves traces of what has been altered or lost, where presence and absence coexist, and memory remains active rather than fixed.
Between Bloom and Silence, 2026
Mixed Media (Oil, Resin, Glue)
36 × 36 in
This work explores the coexistence of hope and hopelessness during uncertain times. A floral veil suggests renewal and cultural rituals of wishing, while a partially obscured face reflects emotional eight and present reality. Inspired by Persian rug textures, the layered surface becomes a metaphor for memory and endurance, allowing both states to exist simultaneously without resolution.
After the Silence, 2026
Mixed Media (Oil, Resin, Glue)
36 × 36 in
This work explores a quiet landscape after destruction, focusing on absence, memory, and the slow return of life. A faint path suggests movement through uncertainty, while subtle floral elements act as signs of persistence. The layered surface reflects erosion and time, holding both ruin and regeneration in tension.
Rise, 2025
Mixed Media (Oil, Resin, Glue)
21 × 17 in
This piece is about joy that arrives unannounced.
It’s the moment when color breaks through stillness — not loud, not forced, just inevitable. The texture hums softly beneath the surface, like laughter remembered after quiet days. It’s a bloom born from patience, a reminder that light always finds a way in, even through the smallest cracks of time.
Whisper, 2025
Mixed Media (Oil, Resin, Glue)
21 × 17 in
This piece is about rhythm — the pulse of being alive.
Color dances here, not to be perfect but to be free. The dots, the motion, the balance between chaos and calm — they’re all part of the same song.
It’s life in fragments: messy, bright, spontaneous, but somehow in harmony.
The Garden Under Fire, 2026
Mixed Media (Oil, Resin, Glue)
21 × 17 in
The surface is marked by dark, fragmented forms that suggest impact, instability, and the lingering presence of violence.
Drawing from the visual language of Persian miniature painting, this tradition is reinterpreted through abstraction, allowing memory, conflict, and environment to merge within a single field.
Amid the density of the composition, small floral elements emerge across the surface. These are not decorative; they function as quiet acts of persistence, interrupting the weight of destruction with subtle signs of life.
Rather than separating devastation from beauty, the painting allows them to exist simultaneously.
The garden does not disappear-it endures, even under fire.
Spring Under Ash (Iran), 2026
Mixed Media (Oil, Resin, Glue)
23.5 × 22 in
This work reflects a disrupted sense of renewal. Traditionally, spring symbolizes rebirth, but here it is transformed into a moment of tension and unease. The painting is rooted in personal memory-watching a morning sky turn black instead of blue, and witnessing the aftermath of rain carrying dust and residue into everyday life.
The surface is built through layered textures inspired by Persian rugs, where weaving becomes a metaphor for accumulated history and lived experience. The composition is divided into connected panels, referencing the narrative structure of Persian miniature painting, particularly the Safavid tradition, where multiple moments coexist within a single visual field
Each section holds a fragment of time: traces of nature, gestures of destruction, and quiet elements of resilience. The presence of floral forms suggests persistence, even in altered conditions. The name "Iran," integrated across the panels in Persian typography, anchors the work in both identity and geography.
Rather than depicting a single event, the painting operates as a field of memory-where beauty, damage, and continuity exist simultaneously.
Rooted, 2025
Mixed Media (Oil, Resin, Glue)
36 × 36 in
This piece is about memory held in texture.
It’s the past speaking softly through color — threads of identity pulled through time. Each layer carries a story, a rhythm, a name once whispered and never forgotten.
It’s about how we hold both what came before and what we’re becoming — woven together, inseparable.
Venus, 2025
Mixed Media (Oil, Resin, Glue)
36 × 36 in
This piece is about beauty that hides and reveals itself.
Gold and coral, warmth and shadow — they circle each other like planets in orbit. It’s love and distance, light and concealment.
Venus is not about perfection; it’s about glow — the quiet fire beneath the surface, the tenderness that burns softly through silence.
Black hole, 2025
Mixed Media (Oil, Resin, Glue)
36 × 36 in
“How swiftly my mute years passed. For all these years, I've watched with the same intentness. Can anyone believe it? I too became a black hole at last.”
The series of oil paintings was created for the book Living Against the Void as a way to bring its emotions and meaning to life through texture and color. Each piece is built up with layers of oil paint and a special resin-based material, applied using a handmade tool that creates a pattern like a worn rug or tapestry. These textures hold stories—of fragility, memory, and quiet strength. Through this work, I invite you to explore a space where words and images meet, and where the idea of the void becomes something to reflect on, not fear.
Nothingness, 2025
Mixed Media (Oil, Resin, Glue)
36 × 36 in
“I am composed of strings: zeros and ones - a clot of nothingness, spilled into life's meaningless hands.”
The series of oil paintings was created for the book Living Against the Void as a way to bring its emotions and meaning to life through texture and color. Each piece is built up with layers of oil paint and a special resin-based material, applied using a handmade tool that creates a pattern like a worn rug or tapestry. These textures hold stories—of fragility, memory, and quiet strength. Through this work, I invite you to explore a space where words and images meet, and where the idea of the void becomes something to reflect on, not fear.
Web, 2024
Mixed Media (Oil, Resin, Glue)
36 × 36 in
Oh How Fiercely Has Passed This Simple Stream Of Life Will I One Day Tear Open My Throat My
Thoughts Are Like The Stick
Strands Of A Spiders Sorrowful Web
Thus Enveloping Me Thus
Consuming Me Thus Swaying Upon My Fetters I Am In Shackles I Am I Slave To The Shackles
This painting was created for the book Living Against the Void as a way to bring its emotions and meaning to life through texture and color. Each piece is built with layers of oil paint and a resin-based material, applied using a handmade tool that creates patterns reminiscent of worn rugs or tapestries. These surfaces hold stories of fragility, memory, and quiet strength. Through this work, I invite you to explore a space where words and images meet — where the idea of the void becomes something to reflect on, not to fear.
Silence Growth, 2025
Mixed Media (Oil, Resin, Glue)
50 × 70 in
This piece is about what grows quietly.
It’s the space between breaths — where transformation takes root in stillness. The surface moves like the slow rhythm of nature, layers rising and settling like seasons. It’s about strength that doesn’t need to shout, beauty that unfolds without permission.
There’s a calm persistence in the texture — a reminder that silence isn’t empty; it’s alive, expanding, enduring.
Sweatshop, 2025
Mixed Media (Oil, Resin, Glue)
36 × 36 in
“In the expanse of my anxiety and the shit-laden days from the hangover of poor sleep. An ache that originates in the head, like the sensation of combing along the hair, sweeps me. Weariness has smeared over my eyes, and my eyelids are sagging skins as if they are my lips hanging from utter lifelessness. And the involuntary forehead wrinkles, and muscles that press together from sheer lack of refuge.
I am an island atop the back of a wandering whale. A warmth passes through me, feverful, deathful, ah, as the years of my life, vain. Sweatshop laborers are my image.”
The series of oil paintings was created for the book Living Against the Void as a way to bring its emotions and meaning to life through texture and color. Each piece is built up with layers of oil paint and a special resin-based material, applied using a handmade tool that creates a pattern like a worn rug or tapestry. These textures hold stories—of fragility, memory, and quiet strength. Through this work, I invite you to explore a space where words and images meet, and where the idea of the void becomes something to reflect on, not fear.
Digital paintings
These are selected digital paintings were created for the book Living Against the Void, offering a thoughtful visual interpretation of the author’s words.
Selected Solo Exhibitions: Dallas / Art Expo New York
