Visual Exhibition 2023

Warm and Scabs

"This piece is an interactive work addressing romantic optimism after trauma, encouraging viewers to confront their own associations with space and people. The surrealist chimera of a 'nightstand' is constructed with a found picture frame containing an image distorted by thousands of tiny glass beads. Viewers are welcome to touch and play with these beads revealing a photo of two lovers peacefully asleep in bed."

Woman

"This work demonstrates a powerful, confident, beautiful, and free woman inspired by traditional Persian miniature painting. I tried to paint the things that are forbidden for an artist to show — nudity or a woman to show their body — in contemporary Iran and illustrate a combination of modern and traditional elements. In order to paint a strong woman, I looked for old, abstract Persian miniatures because they illustrate women as they are without any boundaries and they are full of unique textures and patterns. The choice of colors and patterns have an important role in my art to exemplify Persian culture."

"The work is a transformation of a shape and material in an on-site-specific installation. The installation was meant to reflect on nature nurturing us as humans, and humans never leaving nature be as it meant to exist on its own. We are always adding and taking down in nature. This work is nature's story."

"Lost in VR is a body sculpture about the relationship between the human body and virtual reality. If humans are addicted to the VR world, will their minds and sense of the natural world fade away?"

Rain

"Rain was inspired by the spider web after the rain. I have been a person who is afraid of spiders since I was a child, so everything related to spiders is not good. But after accidentally watching a spider web after the rain, I suddenly changed my mind. After the rain, water drops of different sizes hang on the spider webs, and each water drop reflects our world, which is clear and shining. Everything has many different sides, and we need a pair of eyes that are good at discovering beauty from other angles."

"Sand cast, solid glass egg carton, altered."

Cuirass

"The cuirass is inspired by Steam Punk and water fluidity. Combining with 3D prints which represent Chinese minority traditional water pattern elements and machine parts to show a duality of strength and softness, this fashion work expresses nostalgia for hometown and respect for national culture."

Disconnect

"Disconnect is a lowercase typeface inspired by Helvetica. The design reflects the idea of "disconnect to reconnect." The typeface is composed of cutouts in the form of strips of printed letters. The strips are disconnected from one another, but they come together to reconnect and form a letter shape. The intention behind making this typeface was to use analog and digital processes. This was implemented by cutting out the prints, taking photos, adding texture, and changing the perspective of the letter using design tools."

Fantasy Face Sculpt

"This 3D model was made as a part of my coursework in visual communication design. The inspiration behind this design was Medusa from Greek mythology, who has snakes on her head instead of hair. In my fantasy character design, I attempted to make a woman who is transforming into a mythical creature. Thorny vines are coming out of her cracked skull and flowers are growing from them. Her eyebrows have turned into vines and her veins are protruding to show a drastic transformation in her body. The woman is becoming one with nature. The essence of this piece is open for interpretation."

Electric Violin Concept Design

"This is an AI-assisted design project. Midjourney is the AI tool I use; it functions more like a rapid search tool for me, swiftly performing random combinations depending on the keywords I specify. To dig deeper, I chose the desired route from the generated findings. Design requires extensive research. Before designing, I conduct a lot of research, such as learning about the history of what I'm working on and what previous designers have done. Designers learn as they search, and AI may help them learn faster. Furthermore, while the resulting AI-generated images may not be realistic, portions of them, such as the color palette, are quite informative.

"'Futuristic sci-fi stringed instruments' was my prompt. The first image generated is a light strip that spans the entire image, while the other three are guitars in various configurations. I initially utilized the guitar as a variety to keep creating photos, but because it looked so much like a guitar, the effects were not immediately noticeable. I eventually discovered a tiny unfinished instrument in the corner of the initial blurred photograph. This instrument had an unusual structure, but its shape had never been seen before. One advantage of the fuzzy image is that it allows the designer to conceive and rationalize the absurd structure. I drew the stringed instrument from my imagination, and its layout and colors are more reminiscent of an acoustic violin. I preserved the unique contour lines as the outline of the electric violin during the conception phase."

Got Drip?

Video, photography

"This work is a piece of my capstone titled “Got Drip?” (Strategizing and Producing Multimedia Campaigns for Emerging Products and Businesses). Startup businesses have difficulty strategizing and creating media campaigns that convey their products and the company’s vision while retaining user interaction on social media and online platforms. They also have difficulty producing content that interests potential investors to help get their company to reach its full potential. Media campaigns are a series of advertisements or messages that share a single idea and theme that can be applied to several digital mediums and forms of media. These campaigns, if done correctly, are pivotal in a company’s branding, outreach, sales, funding, and overall success.

For this project, I collaborated with Shoe Coat NYC, a startup with an innovative product but very little professional content. It was founded by a current RIT student. Their company produces and sells a protective "Shoe Coat." It mainly distributes online via its website but can also be found in select retail stores across the country. It has had several media campaigns but they have not been diverse in medium or effective in generating new customer interaction, retention, and sales.