Zareen Abeer explores macroscopic patterns that are found deep within nature to represent human organs, such as lungs and the heart. She considers the heart to be the most important organ in the body because it helps us to feel. Just like nature is to earth, she uses lungs to show that we are destroying the one thing that helps us to stay alive which is nature. Through her work, she addresses the topic of environmental issues and human impact on the environment.

“I focus on repetitive tasks that we might overlook. In my collage work, the tasks overlap and create an obscure version of the world we live in, reinforcing the absurd image of our existence; a world where the parameters of our movements and thoughts were already built before we were born into it, to the extent where our instincts are no longer primitive or required.”

Artist Bio: Zareen Abeer is a Bachelor of Fine Arts student at the University Calgary. Her specialization is in printmaking and photography. Her work uses variations of geometric patterns that are found with nature to represent objects, organs or elements of nature.