Remembrance: Attachment: Fragments of a Portrait

This collage emerged from a series of paintings I made on chiffon.

Last winter, I began cutting up these paintings and assembling their fragments into new compositions. One of them was a portrait of my friend Houman, which I had painted while he was in prison.

By cutting and rearranging the portrait, I transformed it into a collage structure, allowing the original image to take on a different form. This piece later became the starting point for a larger installation developed through the same approach.

I'm interested in how an image can be broken apart, rearranged, and transformed into something entirely different, while still carrying traces of its original story.