Drawing the candle image on the copper etching plate, allowed for a transformation of the drawing through the process of printmaking. Before each immersion into the acid, I drew a new network of line, over over the old. Following each etching of the image, a print was made documenting each stage the image went through until the final print. On the surface, it appears I have come full circle from dark to light, light to dark. However, following this process of destruction of image through printmaking, I come to a place of new place symbols enriched through this act of re-creation.

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.

Within my process I explore movement. I am interested in the range of movement that humans are restricted to within the environment we have created for ourselves. We are physically manipulated by the situations our culture creates. The ways we walk, breathe and talk are constructed by our environment. We wait for things, and we form lines to wait for them. We follow routes and signs. There are regulations that unify us and separate us, impacting the way we interact with each other, propagating the psychological movement that we are confined to.

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. 

Eunoe draws on a number of sources for inspiration including the North Saskatchewan River, German woodcuts from 1500 and 1600, contemporary and historic scientific and industrial illustrations, emaki (Japanese narrative hand scrolls), cartoons, and the prairie landscape of Alberta. By referencing both the past and the present in this way, it is my hope that Eunoe will provide viewers with a multi-faceted visual experience reflecting the complexity of how contemporary attitudes towards technology, industrialization and the environment are shaped by a myriad of factors including personal experience, regional history, political, social, scientific forces and cultural factors such as religion and mythology.

In these works, I have used my self-portraits as the main theme and added various elements and symbols to tell stories. As a female artist from Iran who has lived in a society full of contradictions and limitations, I wanted to focus on the contrast between new and old beliefs that I have seen in contemporary Iranian lives. Everything is changing every day and the insane speed at which technology advances has played a crucial role in this rapid change. At the same time, the Iranian society is trying to keep the traditional ideology and culture alive. It is a great struggle between conservative and contemporary points of view.