My story began with Throne of Blood i painted it during the "bloody november" in 2019 during that month nation wide protests were happening in Iran, islamic republic regime shut down the internet of the whole country and started killing people on streets, it is estimated that about 3 thousand people were killed during that month.
Killing of the Sacred Deer was inspired by the false trial of Navid Afkari, one of the protestors who was arrested during those series of protests in iran who then was sentenced to death and was wrongfully executed by hanging.
These two are the beginning of what i call the Dystopians Collection.
acrylic on canvas was my choice back then. i was sure that it was "impossible" to sell anything online. things like that dont happen where i live. its sounded like a fairy tale that others are living. Throne of Blood sat on primary for 4 months before it was sold. MrPunk703 started it all.
slowly after that that i started creating minimalistic pieces with political backgrounds and themes, often originating from a true story. because i saw it as way and as hope to preserve these stories on chain or possibly reach other people.
Anti Hero.
Front toward Enemy.
Freedom. for girls of revolution street.
Rage.
We are Infinite.
Creature
Aleph
MiM
Laam
Mythology amazes me and the relationship between man god and devil and humans eternal search for meaning just fascinates me and is present in my art. here is a triptych i did with the names of god. aleph laam mim.
Fun Fact: ETH BULL is technically my genesis NFT, back then i had no idea how to mint nfts or tbh what nfts are. so i watched some videos and went on rarible to figure out minting. made this piece on the peak of crypto bull run and watched my eth decrease because of gas fees.
Refugee. it has second hidden layer.
The Wolf totem
The Tale of Two Cities
i was banned from opensea marketplace because im iranian. it was a comical situation for me because my art is banned in iran too for its strong political anti system nature but life is never easy nor fair when you are from middle east so we go on.
when digital illustration came into my reality it was evident to me that i should establish a single visual language in my body of work that could be easily traced back to me and i tried to do that ever since with minimalistic geometric designs with clean lines that i play around with. character with the same design of facial elements, black red white and yellow colors that are prominent in almost all of my work etc.