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Year of the Snake

Charcoal, acrylic, and gloss medium on paper.

By Shiva Shahmir

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Quick cover of I’m So Tired by Fugazi on my Wurli 140b.

Shot, recorded, and edited on my IPhone 13 mini for the sake of spontaneous creation.

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Summer 2023 on Hornby Island. Tumeric anthotype printing with Canadian artist Tom Burrows artifacts found around his studio.

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Made this film collage around Trumps election in 2016 called Orange State

Impromptu sound collage and loop I performed at home to my deaf dog Borzi April 2024 called Don’t Bend The Circle (live MS recording on a h2n zoom)

Licensed video clips from Pond edited along with sounds by Shiva Shahmir

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Onion Flowers - 2nd Perspective (2023) - Intertwined reflections of the natural world inside a constructed environment built of organic materials.Gesso, acrylic, pastel on drop cloth.

Never been good at drawing in proper perspective.

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Inter-Sections - acrylic and charcoal on prepared drop cloth by Shiva Shahmir

January 2020

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Her body is in her own hands, spelling - Woman, Life, Freedom.

Drawn and screen-printed by Shiva Shahmir in Detroit, Michigan

#FreeIran

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Tom Burrows and Gina Tessaro at work in his studio on Hornby August, 2022. ❤️ Thank you for involving me on some of the steps! Expired 35mm film (at Hornby Island) https://www.instagram.com/p/CiEFixoLxNyaGnW4J1QH1HYhM7dDae5MptRu4M0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Onion Flowers

By Shiva Shahmir

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Deep Brain Stimulation by Shiva Shahmir, 2021

Watercolor, Oil Pastel, and Acrylic on Drop Cloth Canvas

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Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway - Mother Theresa (2020-2021 installation) (at Spread Art) https://www.instagram.com/p/CJ3n5ucD4hByzOA7qolFQWz9297o_WNlSmMQKw0/?igshid=qac7y5ziebk6

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Choppy Waters

Acrylic and charcoal

By Shiva Shahmir

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36mm shots July and August 2020 by Shiva Shahmir

No filters, just film 🎞

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Is it? (📸Shiva Shahmir - July 2020)

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TFW your partner gifts you an iPad to draw on for your birthday. 💕 sometimes we can has nice things

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Hope and the future are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not in towns and cities, but in the impervious and quaking swamps. - Thoreau

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Black Lives Matter

Detroit Will Breathe

2020

35mm shots by Shiva Shahmir