The critical and creative components of my projects use digitized slide film taken by my father in the 90s in Pamir, Uzbekistan, and Azerbaijan as a link between the past and the present. The unifying elements - textiles, ribbon, ceramics, and book cloth - delineate parts of the world and the dislocated cultural identities and unite those materials and their makers.
My work looks to understand the role of people relating to a place and reverse expectations of Orientalism connected to artists from Azerbaijan, West Asia and Central Asian diaspora.
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Holding Hands, 2024
Medium: Painting
Materials: oil on linen
Dimensions: 12x16 inches
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Medium: Painting
Materials: oil on linen
Dimensions: 12x16 inches
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Tourist, 2024
Medium: Painting
Materials: oil on linen
Dimensions: 12x16 inches
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Medium: Painting
Materials: oil on linen
Dimensions: 12x16 inches
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Study, 2024
Medium: Painting
Materials: oil on board
Dimensions: 6x8 inches
Medium: Painting
Materials: oil on board
Dimensions: 6x8 inches
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Untitled, 2024
Medium: Painting
Materials: oil on linen
Dimensions: 11x14 inches
Medium: Painting
Materials: oil on linen
Dimensions: 11x14 inches
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Winged Rock, 2023
Medium: Painting
Materials: oil on linen
Dimensions: 7x18 inches
Medium: Painting
Materials: oil on linen
Dimensions: 7x18 inches
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Close, 2023
Medium: Painting
Materials: oil on linen
Dimensions: 7x18 inches
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Ties, 2022
Medium: Painting
Materials: oil on linen
Dimensions: 36 x 48 inches
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Field of Games, 2023
Medium: Painting
Materials: oil on linen
Dimensions: 24x30 inches
Medium: Painting
Materials: oil on linen
Dimensions: 7x18 inches
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/73df294437b95cbe1dabc9f89ce939aea9dc79786e3d9302ab8a9e926468dc1c/DSC03910.jpg)
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Ties, 2022
Medium: Painting
Materials: oil on linen
Dimensions: 36 x 48 inches
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/76e1dfb432f223094bc17565c5b878a363cb0c76ec62b935473c46e59f8f0965/DSC05399.jpg)
Field of Games, 2023
Medium: Painting
Materials: oil on linen
Dimensions: 24x30 inches
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d254b494817dab233c3fc03a19af0f019a312e8c274fb2f224ce119ed2c2d8e0/DSC02172_03.jpg)
Earth Takes, 2020
Medium: Painting
Materials: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 12x16 inches
Medium: Painting
Materials: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 12x16 inches
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Hearts of Fruit, 2023
Medium: Painting
Materials: oil on linen
Dimensions: 24x30 inches
Medium: Painting
Materials: oil on linen
Dimensions: 24x30 inches
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a6ee47c162f69738083cfabe67bb236dea74fca4bd3c2479f9cf5acd28b33818/DSC03437.jpg)
Ritual, 2022
Medium: Painting
Materials: oil on linen
Dimensions: 22x22 inches
Medium: Painting
Materials: oil on linen
Dimensions: 22x22 inches
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ef8b1106370f1b86c7f62ff8f8f20aff66ef134ac0392fd0b13686d0a9b10265/DSC04606_02.jpg)
Close as a Sister, Common as Grass 2022
Medium: Painting
Materials: oil on linen
Dimensions: 20x30 inches
Medium: Painting
Materials: oil on linen
Dimensions: 20x30 inches
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The Photographer, 2022
Medium: Painting
Materials: oil on linen
Dimensions: 18 x 31 inches
Medium: Painting
Materials: oil on linen
Dimensions: 18 x 31 inches
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/08a2882821fc14225ae6455af7b2ba95bf9ff24a27ff28dbeb1308aa8a1afc36/DSC05407.jpg)
Karachay Pony, 2023
Medium: Painting
Materials: oil on linen
Dimensions: 22x22 inches