Motherhood is an ongoing series exploring the body, intimacy, vulnerability, and home through the experience of becoming a mother. Beginning with Hadieh's first pregnancy, she became interested in the body not simply as a physical form, but as a space that carries, protects, nourishes, and transforms life.
These works explore the body as a form of architecture, a temporary home where another life develops and where identity itself is transformed. Through layered transparent materials, organic forms, and references to Persian gardens and intimate spaces, I explore the connections between motherhood, memory, belonging, and the changing sense of self.
Motherhood has brought a deeper understanding of resilience and vulnerability. The works reflect on becoming a mother as an ongoing process of transformation, where love, uncertainty, strength, and tenderness exist simultaneously.
Embodying Essence 2, Charcoal, ink, acrylic, pen, pencil, spray paint, resin on wood panel, 40x30 in
Paradise, Ink, acrylic, oil paint, pen, resin on wood panel, 36x24 in
Land Connection 3, Ink, acrylic, pen, pencil on handmade ceramic, 8x8x5 in
Embodying Essence 4, Charcoal, ink, acrylic, pen, pencil, spray paint, resin on wood panel, 11x11 in
Home 1, Charcoal, ink, acrylic, oil paint, resin on wood panel, 36x36 in
Embodying Essence 1, Charcoal, ink, acrylic, pen, pencil, spray paint, resin on wood panel, 36x36 in
Embodying Essence 2, Charcoal, ink, acrylic, pen, pencil, spray paint, resin on wood panel,
Embodying Essence 4, Charcoal, ink, acrylic, pen, pencil, spray paint, resin on wood panel, 12x12 in
Becoming 1, Ink, acrylic, pen, and resin on wood panel, 10x10 in
Becoming 2, Ink, acrylic, pen, pencil, dry pastel, and resin on wood panel, 10x10 in
Land Connection 1, Ink, acrylic, pen, pencil on handmade ceramic, 8x8x2 in
Becoming 4, Ink, acrylic, pen, pencil, dry pastel, and resin on wood panel, 20x16 in
Becoming 3, Ink, acrylic, pen, pencil, dry pastel, and resin on wood panel, 10x10 in
Home 3, Ink, acrylic, oil paint, dry pastel, and resin on wood panel, 20x20 in
Home 2, Ink, acrylic, oil paint, dry pastel, and resin on wood panel, 24x24 in
Home 5, Ink, acrylic, oil paint, pen, pencil, spray paint, resin on wood pane, 10x10 in
