I am interested in discovering and exploring how simple materials can transform and metamorphose into stories. The simple materials I use create delicate, fragile, and vulnerable works, which I juxtapose with Persian miniature and literature. The imageries of my work mostly is derived from Persian miniature, which I select based on the concept that I am working on. Then, I recreate them by gluing thread on paper – first I put the glue with pin on paper, drawing my imagery with glue, then I put the thread over them.
I employ characters from Persian miniatures, furnishing them with my own feminist interpretations of symbols, and interweaving mythical beings with real events that I know first-hand. For me, Persian poetry and storytelling are not only a treasury of stories, myths, and symbols, but also I am inspired by their structure, that of meandering and multi-layered storytelling.