Roaring Whispers, 48″x60”, Oil on canvas
Transfiguration of Perpetuity: Stillness
2024-2025
Stillness unfolds within a frozen, post-catastrophic landscape—a silent terrain where time loosens its grip. Caribou drift across vast, icy expanses in quiet formation, not toward a destination but into an undefined beyond. They embody endurance without spectacle, a quiet resistance etched into the biology of migration and memory. Their movement is slow, steady, and uncelebrated—a metaphor for survival in the aftermath.
Suspended within these glacial scenes are fragments of rocking horses—forms once associated with childhood, play, and repetitive comfort. Here, they appear fractured, embedded like fossils in the snow. The rocking horse, forever in motion yet never advancing, becomes a haunting metaphor: a loop of grief and recollection, an emblem of innocence interrupted. Its presence alongside the caribou complicates the landscape—it signals not nostalgia, but the psychological residue of ecological loss.
This series draws on the scientific concept of succession—the gradual reordering of life after disturbance—yet in Stillness, that recovery is neither linear nor visible. The landscape breathes in a different rhythm, one that mirrors the Iranian cosmological view of time as cyclical, sacred, and infinite. The silence is not emptiness, but duration—waiting, holding, remembering.
Stillness is a meditation on what remains after disaster. It captures a moment suspended between collapse and becoming, where life does not rise in triumph but moves quietly through a timeless space, carrying the weight of continuity.
The Silent Crossing, 20” x 40”, Oil on canvas
Digital rendering, created with architectural visualization and sculptural modeling software.