For this collection, I was primarily inspired by my own immigration process and story. At the time, I was questioning why I was leaving Tehran, Iran. I had all of these trepidations and wanted my paintings to portray a fragile woman falling from the sky. In my mind, Iran was my heaven, and leaving everything behind felt like an accidental journey. I knew that entering an unknown future in a foreign land would be difficult. Ultimately I wanted my work to reflect a woman’s deadly decision. I took over 500 pictures of myself falling down a set of stairs or on top of a mattress. In a way, it was a form of performance art that captured an authentic frame of mind, on canvas and oil painting and a raw wounded soul.
