At the centre of my practice is an exploration of human experiences that unsettle, disorient, and transform us. As a first-generation Iranian woman raised in America, I approach these themes through the lens of displacement and resilience, drawing on a rich inheritance of mysticism and storytelling. Through painting and printmaking, I create sculptural costumes, textile collages, and illuminated installations that reimagine the afterlives of personal and collective histories.

My work distills a life, its spirit, demons and dreams, into a single form. Through clothing and abstraction, I build alternative architectures for memory, where identity moves fluidly between presence, transcendence, and disfiguration. Costume, for me, is not simply an expression of identity; it becomes a living presence, a vessel for transformation.

I start from an internal, intuitive place, using drawing and printmaking to give shape to what is felt but not always seen. These early stages allow accident and intention to meet, creating unexpected outcomes that I develop into larger pieces across painting, textiles, and sculpture. Material choices, layered fabrics, stitched surfaces, glowing elements, capture the tension between fragility and endurance that runs through all of my work.  

Science fiction, surrealism, and the idea of parallel realities are deep influences. I am drawn to the spaces where past and future, visible and invisible, material and imagined collapse into one another. My practice centers the figure of the outsider: women, creators, travelers between worlds, drawn to the vulnerability and agency of those who inhabit the margins, those marked as alien, yet who build new possibilities out of difference.

Through my work, I aim to create evocative, otherworldly environments that invite viewers to experience transformation. To move, even briefly, into spaces where identities are not fixed, but fluid, hybrid, and evolving.