Pieces, 2020-2022

 

Informed by my experience as an immigrant, Pieces is a modular installation composed of 150 mixed-media panels, each measuring 12 by 12 inches and made through painting, printmaking, and collage processes. Adapting the visual logic of Persian architecture and domestic ornament, the work treats home not as a stable site, but as a provisional structure shaped by memory, privacy, displacement, and personal history. Its tile-like units repeat, fracture, and reconfigure, producing a field in which order is continually interrupted by instability.Rather than using pattern as embellishment, Pieces considers ornament as a system of organization, concealment, and return. Motifs drawn from private, public, and historical sites in Iran emerge through a layered image-making process of painting, printing, cutting, transforming, and reshaping. Displaced onto the floor and architecture of a gallery in the United States, they become partial, unstable, and newly situated. Through this movement between structure and rupture, Pieces returns to the desire to gather fragments into a whole, while knowing that the whole may no longer exist. The work stays with home as a place that shelters and exposes at once, a place made from repetition, memory, and partial images that keep appearing, disappearing, and refusing to settle.