Ararat (Smoking) / Ծխելը — This series of photographs uses the act of smoking an Ararat cigarette in Yerevan as a quiet performance of identity, memory, and fire. The burning cigarette becomes a small, controlled flame—an ember that carries both destruction and endurance. Its smoke evokes the fragility of history, while its ash suggests what remains after loss.

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History Dialogue, Series — History covered up for centuries, this series explores themes of identity and censorship of an ancestral people. Censorship here is not only political but intimate: the refusal to speak, the loss of vocabulary, the assimilation of customs under pressure. Yet these works resist resignation.

Created in collaboration with a local Armenian artist in Yerevan, this series explores authorship, exchange, and the act of making across cultures. Rather than documenting a solitary artistic gesture, the photographs record a shared process in which drawing, conversation, and place become inseparable. By allowing the work to unfold through collaboration, the series shifts attention from the finished image to the relationships that produce it. Set within the urban fabric of Yerevan, the wall becomes both a

Inherited Horizon — These photographs were made from an airplane window using a vintage lens that belonged to my Armenian grandfather, was passed to my mother, and ultimately adapted for use on my modern digital camera. The lens serves as both a photographic tool and a family heirloom, collapsing generations into a single act of seeing.

The repeated drips that descend through these paintings evoke both the physical movement of paint and the symbolic weight of remembrance. They suggest tears, flowing water, and blood, each carrying its own history of grief, survival, and renewal. As an Armenian artist, I see these gestures as quiet references to a people whose history has been marked by profound loss, yet whose culture continues to endure across generations and continents.