By combining photography, archival images of Armenian magazines, and real-life props, these collage projects offer a subtle yet visual language for portraying the Armenian female identity throughout history. The images are meant to depict the suppressed female gaze that has quietly survived throughout the ages of internal and external misogyny rooted in religious, economic, and industrial institutions. Female characters in these projects single-handedly embrace the fragile remains of their identity as a woman (womanhood stripped from any social merits caused by a maternal or matrimonial status) and blend in with the nature that overpowers the aforementioned institutions. The propaganda of these artworks is meant to be more passive and “quiet” to match the voices and the attention of women who have been victims of internal misogyny developed for their survival. 

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By using material from images of women from other cultures and time periods, the borders of time and space are brought down in order to allow the Armenian female identity to relate with the core instinctual female nature that is untouched by any political, religious, or historical events. In order for the Armenian woman to prospect in the modern world and even for her own community, she needs to understand the core nature of womanhood before building the unique and complex identity of Armenian womanhood over it. She cannot become a whole and true Armenian Woman if her Armenianness and Womanhood are in contradiction and under tension.