Sepideh Khalili

My drawing practice emerges from a decade of working in professional architecture and urban design between Iran and Canada. Considerations of social, geopolitical and cultural differences have led me to explore the blending of transnational experi...

My drawing practice emerges from a decade of working in professional architecture and urban design between Iran and Canada. Considerations of social, geopolitical and cultural differences have led me to explore the blending of transnational experiences and memories, both my own and collective. For me, displacement has incurred a loss of belonging or homely ambiance. I tame the chaotic through repetitive visualization, towards creating a more controlled and calm mental state. My current work draws on the forms and ideas of ancient Persian sacred geometry, fabric and pattern. I appropriate space hierarchy, centralism, vertical axis, and orientation: architectural principles traditionally employed to create spiritual unification. I use hand-based, digital and printmaking processes to transform these methods into conceptual and perceptual layers. My intention is to both articulate and generate a sense of harmony, unity, proportion, order, and balance through drawing.