Avva Babaeen
Avva is an artist based in Los Angeles. She studied Fashion Design and Literature at Parsons - The New School for Design and Eugene Lang - The New School for Liberal Arts. She is interested in classical Persian art, literature, music, and the symbolism contained in sacred texts. Her garments, poetry, paintings, and handmade books seek to serve as narrative impressions of the ephemeral.
Tavoos is a collection of fragments. A sentimental relic of cultural images, both real and imagined, both in America and in Iran. Nostalgia for a place that I have never seen, yet know and remember deeply. Family photos, film stills, and symbolic imagery, hand transferred using a printing press, layered with Farsi phrases that endure in my memory, sewn together with silk thread.