MINOOSH ZOMORODINIA: MADE LANDS

While walking in different environments, Minoosh Zomorodinia documents her explorations and records the routes of her walks on land that does not belong to her. She began this walking project in 2016 when the immigration policy was on the precipice of change and she was in the process of changing her visa status. The work playfully and humorously referenced the colonization and origin of the United States. Zomorodinia turned the paths into 3D objects as if they are imaginary living spaces and subsequently owns the “land,” both virtually using a GPS app on her phone, and through the object she produced. 

In this new series, My Ziggurat, Zomorodinia re-forms and reshapes the borders, while referencing historical monuments and the memory from the spaces and land in the digital age. She turns these routes into monumental forms based on the outline of her paths to represent topography in the digital age. The abstracted natural imagery is printed on leftover layers with the texture from the actual location. The printed images transform perceptions of the natural environment in the new media age. She is interested in how technology forms memory through digital archiving, transforming invisible routes that exist as a memory into actual objects in abstract form, is there any limitation? How will the history of a place exist in the future?