SOPHIA HASHEMI
© 2026 Sophia Hashemi
Screenprint collage mounted on panel
60 x 132 x 1 in.
2020
There is a particular kind of freedom that arrives only when there is nothing left to lose — uncontained, disorienting, transformative. The Hallucinogenic Alchemy of Antheraea sits with that feeling, tracing an emotional metamorphosis through the figure of the moth: drawn to light, determined, cyclically renewed. Across three panels, the process of shedding and reforming repeats — not as resolution but as perpetual return, where looking inward becomes the only way forward, and existence asserts itself before meaning has a chance to settle.