Shattered Poems

A deconstruction and abstraction of the Persian alphabet

Shattered Poems, explores feelings of displacement, loss, and identity by creating a dynamic gestural vocabulary drawn from the Farsi alphabet and poetry. Emphasis is placed on the letter’s sculptural shapes - the curves, lines, and points become the base of a new visual language. These gestural variations featured in steel and multi-layered painted canvases communicate in rhythm, repetition, scale, and movement. The new abstract forms stack, fall, link, grow and interlace to connect as an emotive statement that transcends beyond the literary definition. More than representing sound, in this series, letters become the beat to reveal the human sentiment of love, loss, fear, joy, and empathy. 

Shattered Poems are an intersection of past and present, transformation and hope, art and culture, an individual depiction of a universal sentiment.