The exhibition Echoes of Place explores the intersection of dreams, memories, and reality. It reflects the different ways I see my life experience in my home country, Iran—a mix of emotions, sometimes contradictory, that have shaped my connection to home. This project captures those shifting feelings and moves between moments of clarity, fantasy, and nostalgia.

Echos of Place includes two series of paintings that present two visions of the same experience.The first series, Imagined, consists of nine small watercolor pieces that draw inspiration from traditional Persian miniature paintings to create an idealized, almost mythical version of home. These small-scale pieces invite the viewer into an intimate world—like a story filled with warmth, hope, and gentle nostalgia. There are no shadows in these paintings, a deliberate choice to suggest a utopia where nothing is hidden and everything is in clarity and light. This series presents a perspective on home driven by imagination and the wish for a place unchanged by time or hardship.

In contrast, Remembered is rooted in a different kind of storytelling. This large acrylic/oil painting depicts a mix of interior and exterior architectural elements blended by nature, drawn directly from the houses and landscapes I grew up in. Since memory is rarely exact, the spaces have been altered, shaped by time and external influences, just as my perception of home has evolved.

In this series of works, I focus on living spaces—shared environments that house the shifting realms of reality, memory, and imagination. These locations become poetic reflections and symbolic repositories of past events. These places are echoes shaped by longing, nostalgia, and the natural erosion of memory. They hold intimacy and distance, familiarity and strangeness, and comfort and turmoil—much like the idea of home itself.