About My Work…

My work is rooted in the quiet tensions that shape the human experience—division and connection, silence and expression, displacement and belonging. Across many series, I return again and again to the emotional landscapes that form in the aftermath of rupture—whether personal, cultural, or collective. These are not just reflections of the world around me, but of the world within: the memories I carry, the fractures I’ve witnessed, and the longing that continues to move through them.

As the daughter of an Austrian mother and an Afghan father, my creative lens is shaped by both Western and Eastern traditions. My early life was marked by war, migration, and the slow, complex unfolding of identity in unfamiliar places. The experience of being uprooted—and the eventual acceptance of an American identity—deeply informs how I approach form, color, and the emotional gestures embedded in my work. In many ways, my art traces the invisible threads between cultures, between people, and between the selves we lose and find along the way.

Each piece becomes a quiet act of witnessing: of solitude, resilience, grief, and tenderness. Whether exploring the ache of isolation or the fragile hope of reconnection, I strive to offer viewers a space where emotional truths can be felt, not explained. My work is less about resolution and more about resonance—a visual language for what often goes unspoken.