Reliquary - Meme

Building on lessons from prototypes in Series One, Reliquary-Meme Series Two [RMSr.2] explores a tradition of collage and gestural mark-making within painting. Exclusively sourcing language from each postcard’s original sender, these art objects contemplate the experience of a landscape throughout time. Collectively these pieces examine the notion of legacy as an inherent construction of foreign perspectives.

Looking back on these, sometimes century-old, materials I try to bring an inherent shift in context by using my own cultural reference points to trace the history of bodies that once inhabited the city I was born into. As a first generation American raised by immigrants, this project has served as reverence for my family’s journey to America from Iran, and frames the context of my experiences in an endlessly vast and discoverable landscape.

Ranging from colloquial satire to art historical innuendo, these artworks portray a wide range of conceptual thought and reflect on my creative practice, anxieties, & artistic influences.