The monoprints are made using crude oil as pigment. Soaked in oil, the iris specimens are pressed onto translucent paper, which features the archival documents of British Petroleum activities in Iran during the 1930s.
The paper is folded at the center, forming symmetrical, abstract shapes that evoke inkblots from Rorschach tests. The prints echo the psychological residues of extraction—the collective displacement and fractured identities that mirror the uprooting of both people and plants under colonial expansion.
