I work at the intersection of body, memory, and cultural displacement. Trained in sculpture and installation, my practice is rooted in ceramics—a medium that carries both fragility and resilience, much like the human condition itself. Through hand-built forms, I explore how bodies hold tension: between visibility and concealment, belonging and estrangement, tradition and transformation.

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My work draws from my Iranian cultural background and my lived experience within Western contexts. I engage with this duality not as a contrast to be resolved, but as a space of continuous negotiation. Influences from Persian visual culture—its symbolic language, repetition, and sensitivity to surface—inform my approach, while contemporary sculptural practices allow me to disrupt and recontextualize these references. The result is a hybrid visual language that resists fixed identity.

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The human body is central to my practice, not as a static form but as a site of psychological and social inscription. I distort, fragment, and reassemble bodily elements to reflect internal states—vulnerability, control, tension, and resilience. These forms often exist in ambiguous states, neither fully whole nor entirely broken, echoing the complexities of migration and cultural translation.

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Clay, with its responsiveness and resistance, becomes a collaborator in this process. I emphasize touch, repetition, and surface treatment, allowing the material to record gestures and time. Cracks, seams, and textures are not flaws but active elements that speak to transformation and endurance.

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Ultimately, my work is an inquiry into how identity is shaped, fractured, and re-formed across contexts. It invites viewers to confront the unstable boundaries between self and other, past and present, body and environment.