Some write, I draw my words onto my canvas. My paintings are mostly about what I have seen, felt and experienced in my life as a Middle Eastern-American woman. 

Just as a writer would write one paragraph at a time, I start with one brush stroke and work the story along. I often become inspired along the way and start rewriting the first chapter, change the following chapters until the story makes sense to me. 

 

I am a child of revolution who witnessed the drastic changes  of 1979 in my home country Iran. While some of my latest artworks reflect my social, cultural and political opinion toward the injustice associated with women in Middle East, my earlier works focus mostly on my spiritual side. 

 

I love drawing women and most women in my paintings are either made up somehow resembling myself or from a photographic memory of other prior influences. My style varies from Naïve to somewhat Art Brut, owing a colorful canvas to my Iranian cultural backgrounds. Yet, freestyle would serve a better purpose in describing my art. I like to paint what my heart tells me to paint. I usually do not know how the story starts or finishes. I just know that the canvas will direct me.