Artist Statement

I have spent my artistic life painting what cannot be seen.

It began as a question I could not let go of: what exists just beyond the edge of perception? That question has driven everything I have made, from early paintings moving out of darkness toward light, through work that explored the cosmos, sacred landscapes, and the threshold between worlds, to the luminous geometric layers of my current practice.

My process follows my belief. I do not impose a predetermined outcome on the canvas. I prepare conditions and listen. Over the years that has meant pouring fluid color and watching it find its own path, allowing pigments to interact freely, building translucent layer over translucent layer until depth appears that shifts with ambient light. The canvas is something I collaborate with, not something I control.

This way of working is rooted in where I come from. Growing up with Persian poetry and Sufi philosophy, I absorbed an understanding that the visible world is only one layer of what is real. Light is not just illumination. It is presence. The veil is not a barrier. It is a threshold. My paintings live there.

What I paint changes. The underlying question never does.