New Village:
The Story

New Village takes its name from Nodeh (نوده), a small settlement in the Khorasan region of Iran where my family finally put down roots three generations ago. For centuries before that, they were nomadic — moving, always moving. Then came the deliberate act of stopping, of choosing a place and building something there.

I grew up retracing a version of that same movement: across provinces, across countries, between cultures that were never quite mine. The experience left me fluent in displacement and uncertain of home.

Throughout those years, drawing was the one constant. Not a hobby or a discipline, but something closer to a reflex, a way of making a place to stand when no place felt fixed. When it came time to name the practice, there was only ever one answer.

The work is not nostalgic and it is not decorative. It is an attempt to make visible something about how identity is built, assembled from fragments, choices, inheritances you didn't ask for, and the deliberate act of deciding anyway.

New Village is anti-conformist by nature, pragmatic by necessity, and driven by an unrelenting need to discover what the next line wants to be.