The Maids (2012–15), a work based on Jean Genet’s homonymous play

Genet loosely based his play on the infamous sisters Christine and Léa Papin, who brutally
murdered their employer and her daughter in Le Mans, France, in 1933. In an introduction
written for The Maids, Jean-Paul Sartre quotes a line from Genet's novel Our Lady of the
Flowers in which a character muses that if he had a play written for women he'd cast
adolescent boys in the parts. Sartre then speculates on having this idea applied to The
Maids

Solange and Claire are two housemaids who construct elaborate sadomasochistic (gratified
by pain) rituals when their mistress (Madame) is away. The focus of their role-playing is the
murder of Madame and they take turns portraying both sides of the power divide. Their
deliberate pace and devotion to detail guarantees that they always fail to actualize their
fantasies by ceremoniously "killing" Madame at the ritual's dénouement. (he final part of a
play, film, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are
explained or resolved.)

Satirical

Mine is about a magician who kills his bunny rabbit which is a part of his act because he is
hungry and wants to eat so he searches for a replacement but cannot find one so he
uses a magnifying glass to help him search for one

I used Adobe Photoshop and added the magnifying glass

I also used a ‘psychedelic filter’ to depict “a magician’s world’. As Ramin, Rokni and
Hesam are also known for their art of poetry, I too have written a poem titled, “A
Magician’s World”. The poem explains the use of my colour scheme as well as why I
have used certain effects
Original Image

First Edit

Blur, vector magnifying glass, used shadows and convex reflection to make an effect of the magnifying glass

Second Edit

Psychedelic filter effect: stylized by solarizing the image and then adjusting the hue and saturation

Mixed Media Artwork:

Eye inside black and white to show contrast compared to colours outside.