المحمية - Al-Mahmiya

Resting and giving shape to dreams.

Above a tranquil expanse of water, where clouds drift like unspoken thoughts, a golden frame floats - a threshold between the visible and the imagined. Within it, a woman reclines on a cushion, her body at rest, her mind adrift in creation.

المحمية - Al-Mahmiya, meaning The Protected, evokes the sacred space where dreams take form before entering the world. The figure hovers between sky and sea, both sheltered and radiant, embodying the quiet power of imagination as a source of renewal.

The painting is a meditation on stillness as strength, on the sanctuary that allows vision to grow. To dream, it suggests, is not to escape reality - but to give it shape.

باغ فین - Bagh-e Fin

Inspired by the historic garden of باغ فین - Bagh-e Fin in Kashan, one of Iran’s oldest and most enchanting gardens, this painting reimagines paradise as both design and discovery. Water channels trace perfect lines through the garden, reflecting the architecture of the Safavid era - symmetry born of devotion.

Yet through these lines, life overflows. Blossoms breach their borders, vines reach across marble edges and the order of geometry gives way to the freedom of growth. In a quiet corner of the garden, a carpet is spread out, adorned with wondrous fruits and small delights, inviting the viewer to linger.

Bagh-e Fin celebrates the balance between human intention and nature’s wild persistence. It is a garden to be wandered, not possessed - a living map of beauty that renews itself with every gaze.

Garden of Underground Sources

A secret garden unfolds between worlds - hidden, timeless, untouched by the noise of order and decay. Two trees reside beside a still, mysterious water. Behind them, mountains guard the horizon like memory itself.

The silence shimmers with unseen life. From the depths, living waters rise to feed this place of beginning and return. Two ethereal birds linger by the shore, keepers of stillness and transformation. Here, the world seems to pause - held in the breath between creation and renewal.

Tree of Resilience

Amid blossoming shrubs and patterned foliage stands the Tree of Resilience - a living emblem of endurance and renewal. Within its branches, a pair of birds converse softly, their song waving through the air like memory and hope.

The painting draws inspiration from Maya Angelou’s words: “I can be changed by what happens to me, but I refuse to be reduced by it.” The tree embodies that spirit - shaped by the seasons, yet never diminished. Every leaf and bloom carries the quiet strength of life that bends, listens, and continues to rise.