Untamed is an evolving body of work that treats alienation not just as a theme but as a method. Rooted in lived experiences of censorship, patriarchy, and life under rigid political structures, the project assembles fractured forms that bend, detach, and slip between categories. Layering, repetition, and improvisation drive a process where ambiguity, refusal, and “failure” are generative—producing works that begin and un-begin, echoing and interrupting motifs from Persian visual traditions and gendered narratives. In dialogue with ideas of glitch and illegibility as resistance, Untamed inhabits the cracks of dominant systems to propose alienation as a site of making rather than lack. The installation is conceived as a threshold rather than a fixed object—reconfigurable across spaces—holding the tension between mourning and liberation while imagining new languages of belonging through difference.

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Materials & Process: Oil paint on plexiglass (acrylic); heat-formed/heat-treated surfaces.

In-studio/process photographs and installation views at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery and Pale Fire Projects.