Original artwork by Seyed Alavi
2014
Oil on cardboard
107 × 126 × 0.25 inches
Homeless explores home as a state of belonging and orientation in the world. Beginning with the immigrant’s experience of separation from a place called home, Alavi extends that condition into a broader meditation on displacement.
Stripped of clothing, possessions, and recognizable surroundings, the figures exist between place and placelessness. Their inward-looking postures and obscured faces suggest introspection and withdrawal, asking what remains when the attachments that anchor identity are removed.
Original artwork by Seyed Alavi
2014
Oil on cardboard
107 × 126 × 0.25 inches
Homeless explores home as a state of belonging and orientation in the world. Beginning with the immigrant’s experience of separation from a place called home, Alavi extends that condition into a broader meditation on displacement.
Stripped of clothing, possessions, and recognizable surroundings, the figures exist between place and placelessness. Their inward-looking postures and obscured faces suggest introspection and withdrawal, asking what remains when the attachments that anchor identity are removed.
