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Cairo Mo '20
This is a theatrical self portrait. Fractured light plays off a calm, restrained figure, creating tension and a sense of impending violence. 24″ x 30″
2018
Oil paint on canvas
By Cairo Mo '20
This series was taken at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum’s Butterfly Pavilion.
2019
Series of Photographs
This is a collage I made featuring my favorite colors. There are bits of paper popping off of the page!
2021
Digital Photograph of Paper Collage
This work is a triptych of body parts from several acclaimed works by Renaissance artists. The famous works are reimagined in a modern style.
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
Growing up in Iran taught me that limitation breed creativity. I tried to embody the same lesson by using alternative printing methods in the darkroom
2016
Black & white photography
These metallic flowers portray our future if we continue to condone industrial heavy metal pollution. Each flower is one of my original designs.
2024
Original origami flowers on red and silver foil paper; Arranged with silk leaves
This piece is of my neighbor’s beagle, Clyde. She has two dogs, and the other is named Bonnie!
Colored pencil
Quotes from an anonymous survey sent out to student dorms are written on prints of photographs of ducks representing Stanford students
Digital photography prints
This means “my cabbage” in Russian, and the word also means “money”. This was inspired by a photo from r/peopleofwalmart.
2020
Digital Art
This painting speaks to how beauty lies in impermanence, contrasting eternal mountains and passing mist.
2023
ink on rice paper; poetry
Girl restrains her tears for, hopefully, the last time.
Photoshop
A series of poems written exclusively with programming keywords. An investigation on language, audience, and dangerous English-centric thinking.
Link to Website
2017
code poems
I have a series of three paintings showing scenes from 3 places here in USA which caught my eye.
2022
Watercolor
This piece captures the fleeting, but golden moment of connection between the deer and the viewer. A reminder that beautiful things are fleeting.
2015
Oil on canvas
These pieces draw on the rich beauty of Italy to subvert ideas of what Italian art must be (i.e stuck in the Renaissance).
Pen and Marker
“David” is a 3D bust loosely based on Michelangelo’s piece of the same name. Inspired by the music video of “Money for Nothing” by Dire Straits.
Blender 3D Render
A colorful view of buildings and the sky over Florence (Firenze).
2014
Oil Paint on Canvas
This is an image of a mushroom found on a trail off Old La Honda Road. I wanted to create a mystical yet comforting feeling surrounding the mushroom.
Photography
Using alternative black and white photography techniques, I tried to illustrate the poems of the Persian poet and painter Sohrab Sepehri.
Black and White photography
This is how your friend from high school looks at you–knowing you’re different now, knowing she’s different now.
Color Film
I use this artwork to ask, “What has become of our childhood innocence?”
ink on paper, collage