Ak-Ami

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  • Ak Ami

  • 39 / Female
  • 3rd World LA, California, US
  • Last Login: 7/7/2009

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  • General

    Art, Education, Liberating ourselves from oppression. The focus of my art has centered on signage and symbology from Iranian and Islamic art such as pattern and miniature painting. I am also influenced by symbology used in American pop culture in particular, symbols generated by American media. My exploration is in methods which construct a collective perspective. Although my work changes in form the connective thread in the content looks at the creation of symbols or icons through persuasion or other means. I am interested in what gives power to images and how they can represent philosophies or actions. In 1977 my family emigrated from Iran to America. At that time we did not predict that turmoil would keep us from returning to our homeland and family. This estrangement from my own culture and entrance into a culture with a history of hostility toward the previous creates, in my work an overlapped aesthetic through the visual culture of Iran and all of the cultures within Los Angeles. There is not a sense of belonging to either territory but a constant intermingling or float over all. In the pieces “Self Portrait Exaggerating Me as a Terrorist”, and “In Defense of Self defense III”, I use high school lesson plans to guide the drawings. The work uses text, written with a style drawn from Islamic calligraphy and patterning to reveal trends in education, that uphold questioned heroes. In “Self Portrait Exaggerating Me as a Terrorist”, there is a reference to Adrian Piper’s “Self Portrait Exaggerating my Negroid Features”. In a series of work entitled “Through Me the Prophet will Forever Speak”, Images of Western cultural icons are used to deconstruct the concept of “starpower” or idolatry. The face of each idol on a post card is painted over with an eastern image in classic miniature style. The work has a general reference to the Prophet’s return to Mecca. When establishing Islam in it’s formation, relics of Idolatry were either destroyed or defaced. “Stop it at it’s Source” was inspired in part by an Islamic shrine that my family maintains in Sari. It is also inspired by a political atmosphere in western society, driven by misconceptions of Islam. A central sculpture, reminiscent of a chandelier is entirely constructed of clear plastic knives. The walls are the color of damp earth and surrounded by text translated from Arabic to Farsi, then transliterated to English and written in a font to resemble Kufic. My most recent series “Re-Aiming the Canon”, images are pulled out and painted in gouache from photographs of people’s struggles. Since the iconic imagery is pulled out of it’s background, the placement can be anywhere in the world. All symbols are things that represent something else. I focus on those created by a collective understanding either locally, influenced by culture and context or understood globally based on human experience. My work is influenced by art production that isolates and discusses those symbols, ranging from minimalism to communication art. More than anything, my body of work exploits the signifiers relayed through iconic symbols. It looks at how icons can be complemented through their various linguistic messages and how they can be manipulated to change historical circumstances.

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  • Status: In a Relationship
  • Here for: Networking, Friends
  • Hometown: Tehran / Sari / Lowell St.
  • Zodiac Sign: Scorpio
  • Education: Grad / professional school
  • Occupation: Information Exchange

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  • Jun 30 2009 7:23 AM

  • Jun 30 2009 2:57 AM

    Come support the Sistas on 7/4/09!
  • Jun 23 2009 11:21 PM


  • Jun 23 2009 8:41 AM


    Hearts~
    Marthur
  • Jun 15 2009 7:17 PM

    Ami how are you?? Its been a while.
  • Jun 19 2009 4:52 AM

    © 2008 Killakingdom Entertainment Just Dropping a note, Hope everything is good Come through sometime to say whats up, peace!
  • May 27 2009 3:07 AM

    HEY AMI HOW YOUVE BEEN HOPEFULLY FINE WELL IM JUST STOPPING BY TO SAY HELLO NOW THAT IM NOT IN L A NO MORE ME N LULU MOVED UP NORTH TO WASHINGTON HOPE TO HEAR FROM ANY TIME SOON BYE....  ALEX A.K.A REBEL
  • May 4 2009 12:32 AM

  • Jhanvieh ژانویه Online Now!

    Apr 1 2009 6:00 AM

    happy norooz from your friends

    Sam and Anahita of
    Jhanvieh!

    PS...we are on 88.9FM this monday at 9am in OC! Also, we are coming out with a new album this summer...stay tuned! peace and love to all!
  • Mar 23 2009 11:21 PM

    Hmmm... maybe im just confusing it
    with the class I took after yours o.
    O
    thanks though ^________^

    so how youve been?
    you still teach?
  • Mar 23 2009 6:18 AM

    Hello! Miss Ami =]
    Im glad you replied.

    Ive been doing good
    thanks for asking ^^
    how about you?

    Oh and I have a question,
    remember when we build models
    of rooms or houses ? whatever happend
    to those models students made, because
    I remember building a model of my room
    and I didnt see it again once the art class
    was over, just asking.


    xDaph :]

  • Mar 18 2009 6:55 PM

    Its crazy... I have my ups and downs but I'm still hanging in here... it seems like this semester I'm having time management problemz...ugh... I'mma stay positive and keep going tho...
  • Mar 18 2009 7:24 AM

    aww Thank you Ami!!! how have you been?
  • Mar 11 2009 3:33 AM

    oh becouse...at the begginig of april im going to go to San Fransico...for of couple of days...
    hopefully...
  • Mar 10 2009 3:54 PM

    Thank you for the add!
  • Mar 8 2009 10:48 PM

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  • Mar 6 2009 2:33 AM

    smaller IWD09
  • Mar 4 2009 9:34 PM

    we are doing good...
    yeah i still go there..what was the name of the teacher that you introduce me to i forgot
  • Mar 4 2009 2:24 AM

    HEY AMI ITS PAMELA HOW YOU BEEN?
  • Mar 1 2009 12:37 AM

  • Feb 28 2009 4:30 AM

    Sounds very interesting your art work and theories: I am highly interested in political iconography. I hope you will enjoy my work too.

    StickyTraxX is one of my most recent uploads...

  • Feb 20 2009 4:33 AM

    ive been good ill be graduateing in june....so how life its been like 5 years sinces i last had u as a teacher
  • Feb 19 2009 4:35 AM

    long time on see ami...u rember me paul
  • Feb 16 2009 7:44 PM

    wow i cant believe u still know me lol :)

    i been.....okay, i could be better but im good :)
  • Feb 14 2009 3:50 PM

    Thankyou Ak Ami,



    Peace

    RebelWarriorSoul