Transformed Landscape

Transformed Landscape brings together photographs of landscapes from Iran and the United States. I cut, rearrange, and layer fragments of these images within geometric structures informed by Iranian and Islamic visual traditions.

Rather than reproducing historical patterns, I use this older visual language as a starting point for new forms, bringing it into the present. The geometry becomes fragmented, but a sense of order remains. I am interested in how these changes in structure can shift the way we see and understand a landscape.

Fragments of mountains, fields, trees, and sky appear beside one another, displacing the landscape from its original geography. The fragments remain recognizable, but the place itself becomes uncertain. We know what we are looking at, but cannot locate it.

Drawing on a visual tradition in which geometry and nature-based forms have long been brought together, I use photography and collage to construct a contemporary landscape. It moves between observation and imagination and can exist only within the image.