Hugging Chair (2021)

While sitting for hours, days, weeks, years, we wrap ourselves with soft arms until we feel something again.

Pantyhose, polyfil, sequins, wooden chair, 36” x 24”

Sun Seekers: Take a Break (2021)

A neck pillow blended with a wearable cuckoo clock that chimes hourly, Take a Break is the Sun Seekers’ tactile analog alternative to the cyclical screen-based reminder to get off your screen.

Cuckoo clock, sequins, felt, 30″ x 14″

Sun Seekers: Soft Weight (2021)

Soft Weight is a therapeutic cape created from a weighted blanket and worn by members of the Sun Seekers. The cape relieves the anxiety of the screen world by using the somatic healing practice of deep pressure therapy, reminding the wearer to shed anxiety and reconnect with their body. Adorned with reflective shine and the Sun Seekers symbol– an upside-down triangle, which references the feminist and queer reclamation of empowerment around identity– the paradoxical cape calmly weights the wearer down while encouraging their energy to elevate, representing the ethos of the Sun Seekers.

Weighted blanket, sequins, felt, 48″ x 30″

Sun Seekers: Bird Sense (2021)

Reminiscent of 17th Century plague doctors who wore beaked masks filled with perfume to protect against poisoned air, Bird Sense connects this historic moment to the Sun Seekers’ current reality. Outfitted with a cooling eye mask with a pocket in the beak for dried lavender (or any other desired scent), Bird Sense provides a relaxing break for the eyes while motivating the wearer to breathe deeply in a world currently afraid of breath. 

Felt, eye mask, lavender, 18″ x 20″

She Survives All (2020)

She Survives All reflects the legacy, resilience, and power female-identified Sun Seekers carry forward in the face of systemic oppression throughout time. This print of a handmade collage uses imagery from Persian miniature painting, ancient representations of Hindu goddesses, historic and current portraits of female-identified women’s rights activists, and the artist’s family to present a divine feminine personal/political power that survives beyond pasts, presents and futures. 

Giclee print of collage on paper, 20” x 30”

Modern Work Dioramas: Manager + Team (2019)

Manager/Team represents the systematized isolation found in the screen world of the corporate work environment that the Sun Seekers are trying to escape with their reflective and tactile ameliatorive objects. This screen-based work environment is represented through 3D-printed dioramas of Amy Khoshbin’s father Djam Khoshbin’s office where the artist embodies all the characters. These pieces are inspired by Egyptian Middle Kingdom (2030- 1650 BCE) wooden models depicting hierarchical labor and commerce systems. The walls in Modern Work Dioramas are adorned with corporate motivational posters that feature unique idioms by the artist’s father.

Collaboration with Keary Rosen, Joseph Labib, and Form Design Lab Rutgers

3D-printed Resin, PLA, Plexiglas 10″ x 29″ x 15″

Modern Work Dioramas: Manager + Team (2019)

Manager/Team represents the systematized isolation found in the screen world of the corporate work environment that the Sun Seekers are trying to escape with their reflective and tactile ameliatorive objects. This screen-based work environment is represented through 3D-printed dioramas of Amy Khoshbin’s father Djam Khoshbin’s office where the artist embodies all the characters. These pieces are inspired by Egyptian Middle Kingdom (2030- 1650 BCE) wooden models depicting hierarchical labor and commerce systems. The walls in Modern Work Dioramas are adorned with corporate motivational posters that feature unique idioms by the artist’s father.

Collaboration with Keary Rosen, Joseph Labib, and Form Design Lab Rutgers

3D-printed Resin, PLA, Plexiglas 10″ x 18″ x 15″