Laimah Osman

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  • Gates series

    Gates series

    “Gates” is a series of three monoprints drawing on Muradi’s poem of the same name, which explores themes of immigration and identity. The prints are rendered in a style reminiscent of classical illuminated manuscripts in Persian. The lines play with the Farsi/Dari diacritical marks “zabar,” [above] “zeyr,” [below] and “peysh,” [before] which denote short vowel sounds […]

  • Apartment Still Life

    Pencil, tea, watercolor on paper. 2012

  • Mural

    “They will be greeted by flowers…”, watercolor on Arches Watercolor Paper, 4 foot x 5 foot and 5 inches

  • Chains

    Chains, 2009Copper Plate Etching15 x 11 inchesVariable Edition: 3

  • Famileee

    Disintegration #1. Screenprint on Rives BFK Paper.  22.5″ x 21.5″. 2008

  • Portrait Play

    Photo lithograph prints with tea wash and mixed media. Plate Dimension, 15″ x 35″. 2009

  • Alefabet books

    Alefabet books

    These little blue foldout books are designed for play. Unfold the pages and see how the Farsi alphabet relates to the English alphabet. Farsi (also known as Dari) uses the Arabic alphabet. The first letter is Alef, an ancient word believed to have derived from an Egyptian hieroglyph. I remember sounding out my letters when I […]