Transformed Landscape

Transformed Landscape took shape from collage fragments left over from my earlier project Near and Far. By reworking unused prints and material fragments, I create layered compositions that merge Iranian and American landscapes. Through cutting, reordering, and reconfiguring geometric structures, I fracture familiar perspectives to form interwoven terrains that feel unsettled within a composed structure. These terrains are not neutral; they carry traces of movement, shifting borders, and environments reshaped over time.

This process mirrors the experience of migration and belonging. Just as fragments of paper combine to reshape familiar landscapes, lives marked by displacement carry multiple geographies, memories, and identities at once. What begins as rupture transforms into resilience, revealing structure within instability.

By reconstructing what was once discarded, Transformed Landscape reimagines landscape not as stable or bounded, but as a living collage where borders overlap and identities take layered form, continually reconstructed.