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Computer Science 2022
The security blanket is a metaphor for something we cling to when we are afraid and how it is something we must learn to let it go.
Link to Website
2019
Photography
Through the intimacy and vulnerability of sleep, I convey my boyfriend’s personality, embodied presence, and imprint – literally and metaphorically.
2022
Oil on canvas
Our limbs perform so many tasks yet we rarely take a moment to recognize the inner workings that make these movements possible.
Acrylic tube, yarn, metal hardware, wood, epoxy resin
This series utilizes seemingly arbitrary visual imagery overlaid onto written stream of consciousness to evoke imaginations of trauma and healing.
Charcoal and Ink on Toned Paper
I drew some random kid I found on a Youtube thumbnail. I think it was an Omeleto video.
Colored Pencil on Paper, Digital
This piece explores repetition, but also sense of self (or selves). The title is a quote from Michael Pollan’s “Botany of Desire.”
2020
Vector drawing and photography
The mural shows Nangeli – an Ezhava Dalit woman, who had cut off her one breast in protest against the breast tax system in Travancore, Kerala.
Mural
This project was done on a ten-day summer trip to my family’s ranch.
2017
Environmental Photographs
My mother in her monthly kimchi-making ritual, a food that I learned to take pride in despite being initially ashamed of it.
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
This drawing is a representation of a fractal called a Julia set, which has been rendered out of plants and other organic elements.
2018
Markers on paper
This work is made with acrylic on campus in addition to found paper items, medical textbooks, and other materials.
Acrylic paint and multimedia on canvas
Stillness, the relationship between Venice’s constant landscape and its moving parts, environments of order that have witnessed extravagant change
acrylic on canvas
Lush layers of volanoes, forest fires, tsunamis are interwoven with snarling dogs, invoking chaotic and powerful forces of nature. 30″ x 40″.
Oil paint and thread on canvas
Inspired by a trip to explore the nature preserves in Mass Landing, CA, this art showcases two curlew birds looking for food in the shallow waters.
Watercolor and Pencil
Western media creates unrealistic expectations of perfection in avocados. In this painting, I seek to challenge and redefine avocado beauty standards.
2016
16 wooden chairs, each with one leg severed, tap in syncopated rhythm, puncturing through a low droning electrical hum.
2023
Found and modified wooden chairs, custom steel hardware, dc motors, wires, solder, modified cast iron weights
These collages were created from material gathered from a variety of found sources—primarily Life, National Geographic, and Time magazines.
Collage & ink pen
I made this piece as an exploration of how cows are perceived in different cultures, and society’s relationship to animals as a whole.
2015
Mixed Media
A vivid rainbow above the hoover tower
Photograph of nature
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
Black & white photography