By the harbor in Hamburg, where light, water, and memory meet.
I am an artist exploring memory, material, and meaning through textile, form, and surface. My primary medium is hand-felted wool, which I use to create intricate textile collages and sculptural handbags that evoke personal and collective histories. These works are layered with fragments of landscapes, childhood impressions, and cultural symbols, often referencing Persian carpets, gardens, nomadic vessels, and traditional carrying forms.
Alongside my artistic practice, I work as a landscape architect and urban planner with more than two decades of professional experience in Germany and abroad. I hold a PhD in Urban Planning and Landscape Architecture from TU Dortmund University. My background in botany and spatial design continues to shape my artistic vision, especially in the way I approach texture, layering, structure, and composition. Wool, with its organic responsiveness and tactile depth, feels like a natural continuation of my ongoing engagement with soil, plants, and public space.
My felt works are made entirely by hand using high-quality wool, sometimes combined with silk, copper mesh, ceramics, or stitched textile elements. Each piece can take weeks to complete. The spiral motif, which I often call the “Eye of God,” recurs throughout my work as a symbol of continuity, inner vision, protection, and transformation.
In recent years, my practice has expanded into sculptural handbags and textile vessels inspired by nomadic life, traditional Persian storage forms, salt bags, saddle bags, and everyday domestic objects shaped by women’s hands across generations. These pieces exist somewhere between sculpture, fashion, and memory-object, portable landscapes carrying stories, solitude, and traces of lived experience.
I live and work in Hamburg, where I continue developing a body of textile-based artworks inspired by memory, silence, migration, and Persian craft traditions. Alongside felt collages and sculptural textiles, I also create paintings and handmade prints, all guided by the same impulse: to weave stories into surface and form.
Whether you are a collector, curator, designer, or simply curious, I invite you to explore my world of tactile memories and visual poetics.
