Primary Medium

Drawing

Address

681 Morgan
2nd Floor, End of the Hall, Door on the Left
Brooklyn, 11222

Artist Statement

Growing up with an Iranian Muslim father and an American Christian mother, I was constantly surrounded by Islamic and Christian imagery and art. Descriptions of sinners being devoured in the apocalypse from Revelations haunted me. Our home was filled with intricate Kashani carpets from my dad’s hometown in Iran, and engraved tea sets and mirrors with metal carvings of intertwined animals and plants decorated our living room. As a child, my father told me Persian folktales before bed, filled with magical animals and desperate people. Aspects from both cultures have become deeply intertwined in my work both as a child and as an adult, and I began to look more at images of illuminated manuscripts and medieval tapestries for inspiration. My work imagines a space between fairytales and horror films, drawing on folktales and mythology and distorting ideas of good and evil, beauty and ugliness, and predator and prey.

Links

Website: http://laylanamiart.com
Instagram: @laylawalmartbag