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Undeclared 2022 @chicanikami
This drawing shows the harsh lines of a cityscape being consumed by organic forms, suggesting that, try as we might, we cannot overpower nature.
2017
Ink on Paper
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 series of poems written exclusively with programming keywords. An investigation on language, audience, and dangerous English-centric thinking.
Link to Website
code poems
This work centers on the relationship between the human and the artificial, inspired when I photographed my cousin with a stark, artificial flash.
2023
Oil and Acrylic Paint on Canvas
This is a painting of inception as an artist at the Louvre Museum recreates “The Death of Sardanapalus” by Delacroix, a little boy looking up in awe.
2021
Acrylic on Canvas
The rising sun in the bay turns typically unaesthetic man-made transmission towers into a beautiful contrast of light and dark.
2020
Photography
Experimentation with natural forms and light.
2018
Photograph
This is a painting for children with scars of violence and broken families. The blue hands are suffocating the girl’s strength to speak up.
acrylic on canvas
While at SFMOMA with Stanford’s ITALIC program, I created this self-portrait to explore the merging of technology with my image of self.
A digital re-imagining of my piece about humanity’s changing relationship with the natural world.
2015
Mixed Media
These photos will never be published in a journalistic publication – familiar scenes on campus but different, the other side of palm tree paradise?
Photograph of campus scenes
August on my family’s ranch in Jalisco, México.
Environmental Photographs
This is the place no one would want to miss.
Photo
Isolation, fear, and uncertainty are themes that come up more in our lives, seen through nighttime photos taken in the woods.
This piece combines a photograph taken of a mural in Palo Alto with a vintage National Geographic photograph of the same location.
Digital Collage
Girl has a moment of clarity when her head is in the clouds.
Photoshop
Video edited from found footage reflecting on the repetition, absurdity, and futility of everyday life. Duration: 05:05
Video Art
Oil on Canvas
My mom took a great photo of these skulls hanging on a tree during my trip to Kenya with my family, and wanted to recreate the image in a painting.
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
A fun, surreal piece exploring themes related to the modern food industry.
2014
Watercolor on Paper