In this body of work, I explore how memories—especially those born of migration, longing, and unspoken love—settle into the human form. These paintings are not depictions of people, but rather vessels of feeling; fragmented figures that dissolve into muted colors and textured silence. Each brushstroke is a whisper, each layer a sediment of time. The body becomes a map where wounds, absence, and tenderness leave their marks. Through abstraction and distortion, I let the form disintegrate, reemerge, and sometimes vanish—mirroring the way memory behaves: incomplete, fragile, yet persistent. Using acrylic, collage, and traces of handwritten Farsi poetry beneath translucent layers, I create a visual language of emotional residue. I seek not to tell a story, but to evoke one—an invitation for the viewer to enter their own archive of love, exile, and survival.
