My migration from Iran to Australia has allowed me to live in relative peace, yet the physical distance has never spared me from the emotional and psychological impact of ongoing traumatic news from my homeland. These experiences seep into my psyche, layering over time and obscuring the fragments of memory that remain of my loved ones and the places I left behind.

Windows of War represents the psychological ruptures caused by repression, war, and loss, and the ways these forces have shaped ongoing waves of migration across the Middle East for decades. It is a series of abstract oil paintings created through a process of observation, imagination, and embodiment. The works aim to translate layered experiences of memory, trauma, and displacement.

Drawing inspiration from the cultural and geopolitical realities of Iran and the wider Middle East, I seek to evoke diversity, repetition, and the presence of people through colour mixtures. To convey these lived experiences of memory and trauma, I reframe the geometric structures of taped windows during the war as grids of duality, dissonance, and displacement. By centralising thick, penetrating movements of black paint across these grids, I aim to induce the ongoing emotional dissonances within diaspora.

top to the bottom (left to right) : Image: Sediment of Ashes Medium: Oil on Linen Size: 61 cmx 61 cm + 1.5 cm, Year: 2025

Image: detail of Sediment of Ashes Medium: Oil on Linen Year: 2025

Images: Untitled,  Medium: Oil on Linen Size: 121cmx 100cm + 1.5 cm, Year: 2025

Image: detail of Untitled,  Medium: Oil on Linen Year: 2025