Artist Statement

I paint what cannot be seen. Not as metaphor — but as genuine inquiry into the nature of reality itself.

 My work begins where Persian mystical philosophy and quantum physics arrive at the same truth: that what we perceive as the visible world is only a fraction of what exists. The mystics called it the veil. Physicists call it the quantum field. I call it the subject of my painting.

 Working with acrylic and oil in translucent layers, I build paintings whose depth shifts with ambient light and whose surfaces hold multiple realities simultaneously. What is hidden and what is revealed exist in constant dialogue — not resolved, not explained, but held.

 My Iranian heritage is not background to this work. It is foundation. Growing up with Rumi, Hafiz, and Sadi, I absorbed an understanding of light as divine presence and the veil as a threshold between worlds — one that finds its way into every layer I paint.

 I do not paint to answer the question of what lies beyond the visible. I paint because I already know it is there.