Sometimes There & Sometimes Not is a series of mixed media works connecting abstract text with patterns and imagery from the artists’ Persian and Irish backgrounds. Each piece utilizes the visual language of illuminated manuscripts to frame and present blocks of asemic abstract writing. They are instilled with weight of the meaning and reverence intrinsic to those artifacts.
As the text oscillates between being legible and being illegible, words continually appear, break down, dissolve, and transform into new phrases. Each message stands alone in its ambiguous intent, while at the same time, connecting with the phrases in neighboring works. As viewers move from one composition to another, the phrases they uncover string together to form a unique poetry of their path.