Digital Prints

This page includes botanical digital illustrations, prints on aluminum, paper, and vinyl of various sizes and shapes in private and public collections at corporations, universities, and healthcare centers in San Francisco, Orlando, Davis, Sacramento, and Stanford. I have also included ceiling proposals, where I rendered large-scale installations of my botanical works. 

The botanical digital Illustrations on this page are available and can be printed any size up to 40 x 40 inches or larger on various substrates, including aluminum, photo paper, vinyl, acrylic, or wallpaper, or fabrics.

My hand-made and digital garden prints draw from my research on botanical gardens and medicinal botany, often featuring native California plants. Many of my compositions are inspired by direct observation of plants in botanical gardens, particularly Filoli Botanical Garden in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Endemic Healing and Vivid Garden Botanical series, 2020-2023

In both the Endemic Healing and Vivid Garden series, I included my digital illustrations of healing plants that I researched. Some of the botanical illustrations are printed on aluminum medallions of various sizes to evoke Persian decorative tiles found in traditional structures inside the historic botanical gardens in Shiraz, Iran (where my family originates). The Endemic Healing series features medicinal plants with healing properties that include treating stress, respiratory issues, sore throat, or fever; symptoms similar to those of COVID-19.

Research & Inspiration

The images feature myself alongside botanical manuscripts from the UCSF Library Special Collections, McGill University, MIT, and Marsh’s Library in Ireland.
The compositions are often inspired by plants observed in botanical gardens, particularly the Filoli Botanical Garden in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Installations

This page includes selected permanent commissioned installations from Corporate and University collections in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Shifting Horizon, Collection of  YouTube HQ, San Bruno, CA, 2023

Shifting Horizon is a 4 x 10 feet installation of medicinal plants on the wall, composed of various kinds and sizes. The plants’ silhouettes are drafted after the original images in the Herbal, one of the most remarkable medieval botanical manuscripts, composed by the 12th c. Andalusian physician al-Ghafiqi.

Shifting Horizon is both the study of medicinal plants and cultural expression. It is a symbolic representation of the relationship between humans and the natural world and the potential this relationship may present. Such a fascination with the power of herbal medicine has its roots in medieval medical practices that placed great emphasis on the benefits of nature. By contrast, in our modern world, we mainly rely on chemically manufactured substances. The installation uses broken lines to represent our “shifting horizon” and perspective toward nature; plants are represented in black as a metaphor for the dwindling relationship between humans and natural environments.

Sidereal Messenger, Collection of Stanford University, CA, 2022
Site-specific commissioned installation, 10 x 10 feet

Sidereal Messenger, named after Galileo’s 1610 astronomical treatise, displays a constellation of wooden circles with textual and visual diagrams in the fields of optics and astronomy by Kepler, Tusi, Biruni, Hunain b. Ishaq, Copernicus, and Galileo among others. The commissioned installation by Stanford University, with the theme of Research, combines twenty-five wooden circles (2017) with seven illustrative aluminum pieces (2022) that reference Stanford University’s landmarks and fields of research in astrophysics and cosmology. These new images include the Dish, SLAC, and Hoover Tower. The piece was installed in May 2022 at Graduate Residences, Building B, on the Stanford University campus.

Research

Images are from various astronomy manuscripts that I studied and used for the Sidereal Messenger installation. They are in the collections of The Institute Archives & Special Collections at MIT and The British Library.

Shifting Horizon’s botanical silhouettes are inspired by a 12th C. manuscript from Andalusia, Spain.