AKIKORESKY

Interference Pattern

2026
Acrylic on canvas
24×48

Concentric wave forms convey unseen cultural influences through an organic visual language. A continuous signal moves across the canvas, partially sinking into two pockets that mark my inherited origins. The small central form holds a part of myself, shaped by the tension of fragmented familial forces; it stays connected to one side while the other is distanced yet continues to exert a pull. A distorted identity is formed through competing influences.

This work was featured in the Lingua Franca art exhibition in April of 2026.

Brainwave Frequencies

2025
Acrylic on canvas
16×20

Frequencies of brain activity translated into scale, colour, and rythem. The organic structure reflects the fluidity of thought, referencing how biological processes connects brain activity to the body.

Peaches En Regalia

2025
Digital

Inspired by the song Peaches En Regalia by Frank Zappa; the song was listened to throughout the entirety of the making of this illustration. It’s bright, quick, and deliberately strange. I focused on how it moves, jumps, circles back, and stacks itself in precise layers.

Diaspora

2025
Acrylic on canvas
15×30

The Mother and child motif draws on Christian iconography from my maternal side, while the surrounding carpet pattern reflects Middle Eastern aesthetics from my Afghan heritage on my paternal side, shaped by my upbringing between church and mosque. Cold, dark forms interrupt these images, symbolizing an identity formed through a fragmented cultural narrative.

Dylan 64′

2025
Charcoal on paper
8.5×11

This piece captures an early moment in Dylan’s career, when public recognition and private identity were still in tension, reflecting a figure shaped by time, attention, and observation. By removing excess context, the drawing exists between record and interpretation, exploring how much of an image belongs to history and how much is shaped by the act of looking.