The Intimate Life and Death emerged during Afshani’s early period in the United States, a time marked by profound emotional contradiction—simultaneous beginnings and endings, growth and rupture. The series reflects on intimacy as a space where life, loss, attachment, and disintegration coexist.
Through layered compositions and restrained gestures, the works explore the psychological terrain of relationships, vulnerability, and internal conflict. Rather than narrating specific events, the series holds space for the tension between creation and erasure, hope and exhaustion, presence and absence. In this body of work, life and death are not opposites, but intertwined states—revealing how moments of profound difficulty can also become sites of transformation and becoming.