The paintings in the 'Miscalculators' series are multi-dimensional encapsulations of personal and cultural perceptions and realities of Iranian identity.

The surfaces of each piece are adorned with essentialized elements of Persian beauty and spirituality: gardens, poetry, carpets and mystic symbols. Beneath the silk screens lie images of another Iranian society: dynasties, dictators, murders and dehumanization.

The pieces hold an uncertain time continuum, with memories stored in the back of the mind, informing and bleeding through to the present. The directionality of these pieces is unclear: Is the present stained by history or is the past distorted by the gaze of the present moment?
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The innocents pass by—beasts, insects, birds, beings—observers, silently braying in the background, witnessing a hodgepodge of repetition of numbers and words. The chaos becomes noticeably shameless. In this weird, transitory and uncertain atmosphere, what is of the essence to us, is of no significance to them. Yet, we each eat, drink, mate and fight, and in this commonality we are bound.
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This is the biography of people…people who make love, experience loss, black and white, who complain, see pain, play games, fight in wars, demonstrate… people who submit, people who dominate. Mirroring my numbers and words, their story is repeating …

I continue to review their—and our—values and meanings…I question and doubt their—and our—facts.
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