Painting the human experience.
From architecture to painting, my work has always been rooted in the human experience.
A shift from structure to searching
Before becoming a full-time artist, I trained and worked as an architect.
Architecture taught me to think about how humans move through physical space. Painting has made me question how we move through emotional space.
My work is informed in part by my Persian heritage and an enduring interest in memory, atmosphere and the emotional experience of place.
Today, I use abstraction and the figure to explore presence and what it means to remain human in an increasingly performative world.
The figure has to earn its place.
Most of my paintings begin through movement, layering and erasure rather than a fixed image in mind.
Over time, fragments begin to surface through the chaos. Sometimes they resolve into a human presence. Sometimes they do not, and the painting remains abstract.
In a world that rarely pauses,
art helps us stay connected
to what feels human.
