Saya Behnam: Artist Talk

Saya Behnam is an Iranian-American artist based in Alexandria, Virginia, who creates mixed-media paintings and sculptures using handmade natural pigments extracted from plants, spices, and minerals.

In this artist talk, Behnam discusses her newest series, Strait of Hormuz, which explores the delicate tension between beauty and destruction through torn and folded sheets of mulberry, kozo, and tissue paper layered with ochre pigments from the region.