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Undeclared 2022 @chicanikami
Continuation of After Class Hours.
2020
Digital Illustration
A love letter to passionate yet high-strung and jaded Generation Z, this series focuses on youth’s struggles to find meaning in today’s online world.
Link to Website
2021
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
Hide my anger behind flowers // my anxiety behind moths // my sadness behind â–“â–“â–“
2018
Photoshop
A three panel survey of a new environment.
Acrylic on Canvas (Three 5ft x 4ft panels) 60 x 144 in
An experiment with my visual synesthesia, which imparts color on 2D shapes. Here I try to create a sense of foreboding and discomfort.
2016
Digital Visual Art
Serenity from within results from letting go.
2014
Watercolor
This series utilizes seemingly arbitrary visual imagery overlaid onto written stream of consciousness to evoke imaginations of trauma and healing.
2019
Charcoal and Ink on Toned Paper
This piece depicts a fictionalized memory of my grandfather, who I only knew through his woven hats and birds passed down through my family.
2023
Oil 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
Black & white photography
I have a series of three paintings showing scenes from 3 places here in USA which caught my eye.
2022
Self portrait at the height of COVID and my own extraordinary depression.
Oil paint on canvas
These are part of an ongoing series of portraits of people I met in passing. They can be displayed together or individually.
Oil on canvas
This self-portrait draws on the iconography of the Virgin of Guadalupe that I, as a latina, have a deeply personal, non-religious, relationship with.
Androids may dream of electric sheep, and electric sheep …
doodle
A wristwatch lies across a keyboard with numbers juxtaposing letters, emphasizing how some things are not meant to be rushed and will happen in time.
Acrylic on Canvas
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.
This piece depicts how TikTok primarily portrays a fetishized version of Asian women, leading to an uncertain digital future of complicated dynamics.
Linoleum Block Print on Paper
This piece looks into the intersection of queerness and religion in the age of the internet and digital upbringing.
Interactive Digital Work
How does the lover’s gaze interpret and transform the body? What does it mean to paint the beloved intimately yet leave them unidentifiable?
Acrylic on canvas