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Issue 4: Metabolizer

Through the Window: Looking at London

This video essay explores the city of London through the frames that shape how we see it, especially its windows.

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Issue 4: Metabolizer

Echoes of the Ancestral Land

This video work explores how my Indigenous identity intersects with my upbringing in the city. Through layered images, sound, and abstract visual rhythms, the piece investigates how memory and cultural distance can be reconstructed through moving image.

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Issue 4: Metabolizer

Reflection: The Concept of “Home” from the Perspective of Loss

In this essay I reflect on my process and the thematic of home.

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Issue 4: Metabolizer

From Representation to Expression: Constructing Emotional Experience in Un-Rotted Bloom

My creative practice has always revolved around one central question: how can emotion be expressed rather than merely represented? When I first began learning painting, I used to believe that expression meant the visualisation of emotion. This assumption is still visible in my earlier works. Whether abstract or figurative, all of them were guided by […]

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Issue 4: Metabolizer

Building My Own Haven

Exploring how painting transforms psychological distance into the language of urban emotion.

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Issue 4: Metabolizer

Interfacial Ecologies: On Bark, Bodies, and Bandwidth

The essay explores how natural and digital “skins” act as responsive surfaces that store memory and shape interaction. Through installations that merge bark, skin and glitching textures, my practice explores slower, attentive forms of touch and the ethical relationships that arise when organic and technological rhythms meet.

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Issue 2: Making Conversation

On Memory

Exploring the possibility of preserving memory and containing emotion in the face of loss and grief

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Issue 2: Making Conversation

Engaging, Bridging and Addressing

A wide range of discussion about what and how social documentary is being reflected through the practice of traditional and extended printmaking, which involves the aspects of concept development, critical reflection, technique employment and so on.

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Issue 2: Making Conversation

The Art of Imagery in Drawing: Landscape of Memory

This essay discusses my research on the art of imagery in the creation of drawings, which is combined with examples of artworks and my personal artistic practice to discuss the influence of landscape, imagery, and picturesque concepts on my creative thinking.

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Issue 1: Research Festival

Yearning for the idealised past

An essay analysing the concept of the past, nostalgia and memory.

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Issue 1: Research Festival

Memories of the Motherland

Video essay discussing the development of my practice through research, with personal footage filmed in Iran and documentation of my painting practice.