I make art from the tension between what I left behind and what I carry within.
For me, art is a way of making sense of what I feel but can’t always say.
For me, art is a way of making sense of what I feel but can’t always say.
I was born in Tehran and now live in Toronto. Much of my work explores the emotional aftermath of migration, war, and growing up in a home full of conflict.
But I also move inward to the landscapes of the mind, the body, and the spirit. My practice is as much about exploring the unseen states of being as it is about documenting the external world.
Through photography, film, and mixed media, I process displacement, intimacy, memory, and the quiet heaviness that lingers under the surface. My work often circles themes of forbidden spaces, emotional paralysis, spiritual hunger, womanhood, and the shadow self.
I don’t pretend to have answers. I create from confusion, longing, desire, and pain. Sometimes from joy. Often from the grey in between.
I am still learning, still experimenting. What I know is this: making art is how I stay connected to myself, to spirit, and to the stories that shape our inner and outer worlds.
