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Nazanin
Afshar
Nazanin
Afshar is
a
Canadian
artist
originally
from
Iran. Nazanin felt
her
destiny
as a
painter
early
in
life.
She
has
studied
fine
arts,
photography
and
received
her
BFA
in
Painting
in
Tehran
in
2000.
After
her
academic
studies,
she
deepened
her
creative
experience
with
two
fellowship
programs,
working
with
prominent
figurative
painters.
Now,
she
lives
and
works
in
Canada
and
Iran.
In
the
search
for
a
personal
language,
she
creates
a
body
of
work
that
primarily
focuses
on
the
complexity
of
the
human
condition
and
social
characteristics
behavior
of
people;
especially
about
nuances
in
women
psychosocial
aspects.
The
diversity
and
uniqueness
of
each
individual
inspire
the
artist
to
depict
the
mystery
of
their
looks
through
her
filter
of
perception.
Nazanin
Afshar
works
with
a
variety
of
media
and
techniques;
including
painting,
drawing,
photography,
and
sculpture.
Her
works
have
been
exhibited
in
Canada
and
Iran.
Nazanin says:
For
what
reason
people
move
from
one
place
to
another?
To
answer
plainly,
I
would
say
it
is
to
find
some
equilibrium;
people
migrate
to
find
balance
within
themselves.
We
are
pushed
and
pulled,
to
and
from
experiences
that
contribute
to
completing
our
evolutionary
paths,
and
it
does
not
end
until
the
restlessness
within
us
subsides.
My
personal
experience
has
taught
me
that
living
in
different
environments
influences
the
way
we
perceive
our
surroundings,
and
in
turn,
how
these
perceptions
influence
our
beliefs
and
mental
patterns.
After
moving
around
a
few
times,
the
feeling
of
being
at
“home”
no
longer
depends
on
external
factors
but
something
internally
deeper;
in
other
words,
it
is
closer
to a
state
of
being
no
longer
defined
by
space,
but
quality
of
existence.
Each
natural
forms
and
elements
in
my
work
represent
a
meaning
distinctly
related
to
its
original
environment.
I
was
inspired
to
use
different
media
to
create
various
textures
and
also
to
challenge
my
regular
approach
of
figurative
drawing.
My
love
of
photography
and
printmaking
led
me
to
use
image
transfer
techniques
to
revive
old
photographs,
subtly
referring
to
the
past
lingering
in
the
present
moment.
I
was
always
fascinated
by
the
use
of
silver
and
gold
in
old
miniature
paintings
that
represent
water
and
light.
This
fascination
motivated
me
to
create
my
colors
by
using
metallic
pigments
in
different
forms.
The
age-old
comparison
of
East
vs.
West
was
shown
through
compositions,
depicting
the
usual
contrasts
that
describe
them.
Finally,
this
series
is
an
attempt
to
convey
how
memories
surpass
the
boundaries
of
time,
leaving
us
with
a
sense
of a
fleeting
serendipitous
existence
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