Sight

2024
acrylic on canvas 
36 x 36”
 
During my time as a student at the San Francisco Art Institute, I befriended and shared an apartment with Gelareh Khoie. Despite us being in our early twenties, Gelareh already demonstrated a rare ability to reflect deeply and offer insightful perspectives on her family history. Spending her formative years in Iran, living under the Caran, as well as being given a powerful mother to guide her, has shaped her into an intuitively compassionate, and spirited young woman. As L.A. filmmaker to an abstract painter, then to owning popular LA. disco , and eventually earning a PhD in Philosophy.
Today, she runs her own business, Kosmos Institute, where she shares teachings rooted in Mythology, Esotericism, and Archetypes to unveil ife's meanings and offer enlightenment.