Khayyam-Pascal, 2015

The pyramid pattern of my installation resembles the Pascal Triangle, a triangular array of binomial coefficients named after the 17th-century French mathematician, Blaise Pascal. However, the 12th-century Iranian mathematician and poet, Omar Khayyam, had studied it centuries before Pascal. Through this installation, I pay homage to both mathematicians. I screen-printed binomial coefficient numbers, Khayyam’s mathematical notes, and Sierpiński’s triangle patterns on 360 hand-cut felt triangles and laser-cut wood pieces. 

Since 2015, Khayyam-Pascal installation has been exhibited at a few galleries and events at Inspace Curatorial (2015), California State University, Stanislaus (2016),  NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View (2016), MIT’s Rotch Library (2018) and Krishna Murthi Gallery at Harker School, in San Jose (2023).

Visual Thinking: Six Ways of Picturing Knowledge, 2018

Site-Specific solo exhibition @ MIT’s Rotch Library of Architecture and Planning

Visual Thinking: Six Ways of Picturing Knowledge was a multi-media site-specific solo exhibition at MIT’s Rotch Library of Architecture and Planning. On display from September 28 to December 14, 2018, the exhibit featured six bodies of work, including Khayyam-Pascal installation, and those works that were inspired by a collection of 17th-19th century books housed at MIT’s Rotch Library and The Institute Archives & Special Collections.