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Environmental Anthropology, Dance 2019 @cliburnius
Self portrait at the height of COVID and my own extraordinary depression.
2020
Oil paint on canvas
Both works are depictions of traditional Catholic religious figures figured through an assemblage of inanimate objects.
2018
Graphite and watercolor on paper
A self-portrait composed of identity objects: rings from my mother, the teapot on my coffee table, the graphic on my favorite t-shirt, etc.
Digital Collage
This piece was made the week before quarantine when everything was uncertain and the weight of not knowing what was to come next hung over our heads.
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Boulder & Rope
The Countour of White Sands NP
2023
Photograph
Vials of yeast samples are the remaining evidence of Dr. Charles Yanofsky, a noted faculty and geneticist who passed away in 2018.
These two paintings were inspired by the feelings of quarantine—isolation, restlessness, and nostalgia.
gouache (two images combined digitally)
This work centers on the relationship between the human and the artificial, inspired when I photographed my cousin with a stark, artificial flash.
Oil and Acrylic Paint on Canvas
A commentary on the fifth stage of grief: acceptance.
2021
Acrylic on Canvas
As a landscape photographer, I like to see things in different light. These photos represent my personal interpretation of Stanford.
2017
Photo
A contrast between the cold, grayish tones of the subject and the warmer ones of the koi around her as they mesh together following the fish’s flow.
Oil Paint on Canvas
This is the first of an ongoing watercolor series completed under shelter-in-place, based on photos that friends have sent of their favorite views.
Watercolor
Our limbs perform so many tasks yet we rarely take a moment to recognize the inner workings that make these movements possible.
2019
Acrylic tube, yarn, metal hardware, wood, epoxy resin
This piece explores repetition, but also sense of self (or selves). The title is a quote from Michael Pollan’s “Botany of Desire.”
Vector drawing and photography
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
A study of a tree for Drawing I in charcoal, exploring silhouettes and shading.
Charcoal on Paper
I use this artwork to ask, “What has become of our childhood innocence?”
ink on paper, collage
A vivid rainbow above the hoover tower
Photograph of nature
I painted this painting following the death of my dog. Sourcing imagery from cheap print and Southern nostalgia, Lassie paints a scene of rebirth.
The emotional turmoil of Fall quarter. As students process their new reality, they long for human connection but also feel empty and purposeless.
Photography