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STATEMENT As an Iranian-American woman artist, painting is my way to understand, question, resolve and explore. My art is about a ritualistic process with the end goal being a purely meditative state of painting. The force behind my art and my life is change. The concept of multiple layers, hidden and revealed, reflects states of change, in that every event in the visible world is the effect of an "image", as in Plato's notion of idea. Each layer addresses emotion and intellect, markings corresponding with incidents of life experienced, only to be covered by another experience, ritualistic in process, tactile in sense, and visual in perception. These concepts behind these paintings were originally inspired by images of particle trails from bubble chambers. The simple elegance of the trails and the incredible information each trail provides, intrigued me both visually and conceptually. In science and in art sublime process and observation change the inherent nature of the matter or medium, the energy and the process itself. Although these works were inspired by particle events, each painting is an event in itself. |
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