[1] Ebtekar's recent investigations have created liminal experiences to longer notions of scientific duration beyond human timelines, and explore the phenomenology of light.

These projects bring forth sculptural and photographic possibilities of the universe gazing back through endless collapses of time and physical reworking of centuries old processes of image making.

[2] Ala Ebtekar grew up in Berkeley and Oakland, California in the San Francisco Bay Area[3] to parents who immigrated to the United States from Iran.

Ebtekar, along with several other young artists from the San Francisco Bay Area, came to form the core unit for a short lived West Coast chapter of KOS.

[3] One year later, Ebtekar traveled to Tehran, Iran to visit extended family which led him to return several months later to study art.

It's entirely fitting that Ebtekar found early artistic inspiration from the worlds of graffiti and the modern tradition of Qahveh-khanehei painting, as his work has encompassed comparable populist sensibilities spanning continents, celebrating the stories and lives of heroic everyday people across time.

This ongoing critical framework of conversations, newly issued art projects, and exploration of various cultural productions and intellectual traditions looks at recent transformations of civic life.