Transformed Landscape

Transformed Landscape reuses collage materials to merge Iranian and American nature, reflecting how migration reshapes place, identity, and the fragile sense of belonging.

Transformed Landscape emerged from fragments of my earlier project Near and Far, which explored the dialogue between nature and Eastern geometric perspective. After completing that series, my studio was filled with discarded collage materials—test prints, cropped edges, partial images. At first, they appeared as remnants of a finished process, but gradually I began to see them as living material, full of potential.

Working with these leftovers, I turned to collage as a way of transforming what was once set aside into a new body of work. I layered and cut the fragments, rearranging them into compositions that fracture and shift perspectives. The source images span landscapes from Iran and the United States, two geographies that anchor my life and imagination. Reordered in this way, they resist singular readings of place and instead form hybrid terrains—landscapes that are both disorienting and unexpectedly whole.

The geometric structures that once shaped Near and Far return here in altered form. Symmetry and order give way to fractured lines and overlapping planes. Horizons bend, patterns break apart, and perspectives collide. In this disorder, I am drawn to what emerges: new alignments, fresh rhythms, and a sense of resilience within fragmentation.

For me, this process reflects how identity and belonging operate. They are rarely seamless or fixed; instead, they are layered, shifting, composed of fragments carried across borders and histories. By reimagining these landscapes through collage, I seek a visual language that acknowledges rupture while also searching for continuity.

The use of leftover materials is equally significant. It allows me to rethink waste as possibility, to imagine that what is discarded can still carry the seed of something vital. These collages are not about reconstructing the past but transforming it into new forms of nature—layered, unsettled, and alive.

Through Transformed Landscape, I invite viewers into this in-between space. The works ask for close attention: to see how fragments overlap, how disrupted perspectives can still carry beauty, and how belonging might be reimagined not as a perfect whole but as a living collage—fractured, resilient, and continually transformed.