Amir Ebadi

Black-and-white photograph of two people at a café table in a narrow street, reading menus.

Ordering in french / 202608 photography

Painting of a stacked-stone inukshuk in pale pink against an orange ground.

Inukshuk / 202606 painting

Painting of coiled dark purple and pink forms with a yellow eye, on a dark red ground.

My Burden:My Joy / 202603 painting

The light comes in sideways and sets the table for no one. I move a cup to be useful. The cup does not mind. Somewhere a neighbour is running water through a pipe that runs through my wall, and for a minute we are one slow building waking up.

Poem — Window, 6am / 202602 note

Painting of a dark purple flower in flames of orange and yellow, against blue.

AHHHHH its fine / 202601 painting

Painting of drooping dark purple trees on a violet ground.

Purple Kilombo / 202511 painting

Framed painting of a forest in loose green and yellow brushstrokes.

Behesht / 202511 painting

Placeholder text. A painting is finished when I stop arguing with it, not when it stops needing something. Most of the ones I like were left a little early, while they could still change their mind. The ones I finished properly are tidy…

Note — On finishing things / 202509 note

Painting of pink lotus flowers with yellow-green leaves on a dark blue-green ground.

Vietnam / 202507 painting

Three red-painted canvases side by side on a brown surface: a solid red slab, red strokes, and a red lattice.

Transcendence of the soul in 3:? phases (4) / 202507 painting

Painting of a black tree against vertical orange and yellow bands.

Sunset on the Savannah / 202507 painting

Abstract painting of yellow and orange smears over olive green, with black marks and a red band at the bottom.

Mysterious Man / 202507 painting

Painting of vertical yellow strokes with a dark green and blue band down the centre and red at the foot.

Matchstick / 202507 painting

Red on white and then more red. The hand knows the way before the head has asked. Three canvases, one colour, three ways of being sorry. The first is loud. The second forgets itself. The third has learned a grid and is trying to behave.

Poem — Red, again / 202506 note

Narrow painting of a pink figure ringed by yellow lines and a halo, on a pale blue ground.

Eve / 202505 painting

Painting of a reclining pink figure against a yellow ground with a sunburst.

Adam / 202505 painting

Tall grey-green painting with dark tree shapes and a pale crescent at top right.

Night with Cyprus Trees / 202504 painting

Painting of a blue figure walking along a long path toward an orange horizon.

I want to break free / 202504 painting

Painting of a coral-red wall with green plants over the top and ivy at right, under blue sky.

A wall in Sarria / 202503 painting

Painting of a dark figure with pale eyes holding a small pink form, on a black ground.

Saturn Devouring His Son II / 202412 painting

Placeholder text. Things I keep meaning to paint: the stairwell in the old building, my mother's hands with the cuticle oil, the exact blue of a bus seat, a window that is also a door, someone leaving a room politely. The list is getting…

Note — A list instead of a painting / 202411 note

Panel with a yellow fern shape, spray paint and red marks on a paint-spattered surface, with a spray can beside it.

Hoja 2 / 202411 mixed

Tall narrow panel of green and yellow with red drips, on a white wall with black speckles.

Hoja 1 / 202411 mixed

Cut-out image of a rock painted with red and pink swirling patterns, on white.

Abandoned Casino Ectoplasm / 202411 mixed

Painting of a black, white and blue round form with a yellow crescent and a red dot, hung on a studio wall.

Punk Miro / 202410 painting

Painting of a terrace with a red and white checkered floor, a palm tree and a green lounger facing a blue sea through arches.

My mediterranean fantasy / 202409 painting

Painting of six orange standing figures with spears in silhouette, on blue sky above sand.

Ancestral Rouge / 202409 painting

Painting of a hand with red nails on a peach panel with a white X, beside a digital clock reading 23:21.

Smack dat / 202405 painting

Painting of a yellow animal upside down among patterned tiles, plants and a street lamp, with a blue figure at right.

Self Portait 1 / 202405 painting

Painting of a blue bull falling headfirst against swirling red and orange.

Falling of the Bulls / 202405 painting

He falls the way a sentence falls when you forget the end of it. Blue in a red field, an animal made of weather. Everyone in the stands is holding their breath as if it were a ticket. He knows the ground is coming. He knows it is only the ground.

Poem — What the bull knows / 202404 note

Painting of a seated blue winged lion with a raised arm, in a blue frame with a yellow dotted border.

The Soul is Blue / 202403 painting

Painting of a seated yellow winged lion with a raised red arm, in a dark blue frame with a yellow dotted border.

Technological Postmodernism at odds with family values / 202403 painting

Painting of a red arched door with a small white figure in it, set among green hills and clouds.

Returing to a semblance of home / 202403 painting

Painting of a pale blue bull curled in mid-air on a tan ground scattered with small flowers.

I didnt ask for this / 202403 painting

Painting of red and blue striped beach umbrellas on a peach ground.

Summer in Asturias / 202312 painting

Drawing of an outstretched patterned hand with a pointed finger and a red X, on a peach ground.

Now you want mercy (2) / 202312 painting

Painting of a purple hooded figure seen from behind, facing a tilted window with colourful panes.

Harry in AMS / 202312 painting

Placeholder text. Blue is the colour I trust least and use most. It recedes when I want it near and sits forward when I want it gone. The lion came out blue because the yellow one was already finished and I wanted to see what it looked…

Note — Notes on blue / 202310 note

Painting of a seaside town, a red car under a green tree, and a halved grapefruit and two glasses on a pink table.

Ciao Bello / 202302 painting

Painting of a green path between tall cypress trees at sunset, with a small figure resting on the grass.

Sueno de vivir en europa / 202008 painting

Painting of a woman seen from behind, shoulders above deep blue water under a grey-blue sky.

Dedicated to / 202008 painting

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