I build meaning—visually, institutionally, and in public.
Visual Artist | Author | Playwright
I make visually driven work across painting, books, and theatre, informed by museums, heritage, and the architecture of public memory.
My work moves between image, narrative, and public memory. Current projects include the books Architecture of Renewal and BREATHE, and the plays Ferdowsi and Moments in Spring. Across forms, I’m drawn to how culture is staged, how meaning is carried, and how people move through rooms, stories, and histories that change them.
Featured Projects
Architecture of Renewal
An illustrated work of narrative nonfiction that asks how a society modernizes without erasing itself, using Iran’s early museum movement to show how culture becomes civic infrastructure.
Learning to Breathe
A lyrical, illustrated nonfiction with a theatrical structure and interview-informed chorus and meditations into a structure of scenes, pauses, and revelations about how art comes into being.
Moments in Spring
The play is a darkly comic, music-laced chamber play in which a haunted Jewish family, trapped in an ever-expanding archive of memory, inheritance, and stolen history, wrestles with Antisemitism, grief, and the aching question of how to live with the past without surrendering to it.
Ferdowsi is a glittering political comedy in silk gloves, sharpened teeth, and chamber music. Set in late-1920s Tehran, it follows a world of charm, vanity, cultural ambition, and carefully staged civility, where the fight over poetry, prestige, and public memory becomes a fight over the soul of a modern nation.
Collectors Cabaret (in development) is a glittering musical comedy of appetite, performance, and possession, set in a world where taste is theatre and desire behaves like an auction. Alive with wit, music, seduction, and social choreography, collectors, performers, and opportunists circle one another through romance, reinvention, and elegant deceit, asking what it really means to prize a thing, a person, or a past.
Mayfair 1931 is a two-act pressure play with very good silver, bad intentions, and chamber music punctuating intentions that cannot be spoken. Set in London in 1931, the play follows an antiques dealer family whose knowledge is suddenly in fashion and whose possessions are suddenly at risk. Inside a glamorous townhouse, flirtation becomes strategy, scholarship a weapon, and Persian art turns the room into a battlefield.
Alongside my creative work, I write and think publicly about museums, heritage, memory, and institutional life. My background in museum studies and cultural research informs the structure, intelligence, and visual sensibility of the work, while recent essays for MuseumViews extend that conversation into public culture, historical memory, and the present tense of heritage.
I am a visual artist, author, and playwright whose work explores how spaces, objects, and institutions shape feeling, memory, and belonging. My practice brings together research, visual intelligence, and dramatic structure, creating work that is historically grounded and formally alive.
For literary, theatrical, visual art, speaking, and select curatorial inquiries, please get in touch. And, visit MUSEUMVIEWS.