INSOMNIA
In early 2022, when I was introduced to the exciting realm of wearable sculpture through a dear architect friend and the wonderful Iranian artist and university lecturer Pouyeh Peyman, I was naturally drawn to it. The human body and its communicative potentials stand at the intersection of my background in architecture, design, and systems of translation, and years of studying the human form and practicing in figurative art; it can be the creator, vessel, and receiver of expressions, experiences, and messages.
Still shaken by all the isolation and loss experienced through the global COVID pandemic and anxiously gazing at an increasingly socially and politically turbulent horizon in my home country, it was around the same time that I was once again visited by an old friend: insomnia. The following are my studies of the various facets of sleeplessness reimagined as forms interacting with the mind and the body.
