During my artistic career I have experimented with different types of mediums and techniques. In this series of drawings I have used a graphic pen. I have used this technique since adolescence and the portable nature of the medium has allowed me to continually compose a visual diary. Including calligraphy in this current work creates a textual interconnection with the image, enriching it aesthetically and epistemologically. I have used text taken from both contemporary Persian literature and also from great classical poets such as Sa’adi, Hafiz and Rumi.

As a painter, I was more focussed on the human figure.  In the last five years, stimulated by the rural context in which I live, my attention has shifted towards nature and in particular I have focussed on tree forms.  Most of my tree subjects are dead, or emptied of their vitality; however they still have the strength to fully relate their experience. I try to represent their skeletons, their nakedness; I attempt to reveal their sacred absence, the invisible aspect.