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Oil on canvas,
24.5 × 12 inches,
2023
Totemic Immigration is a contemporary Cubist oil painting exploring migration, identity, and cultural transformation through stacked symbolic forms and fragmented figurative imagery. Influenced by themes of displacement, adaptation, and collective memory, Farron Khan uses layered geometry and shifting perspectives to reflect the emotional complexity of movement across borders, histories, and generations. The totemic structure suggests both resilience and burden, emphasizing how personal and cultural identities are continuously shaped through migration and shared experience. Through abstraction and symbolism, the work examines belonging, survival, and the evolving nature of human connection.
Oil on canvas, (2026)
30 × 30 inches
The Peach Farmer is a contemporary Cubist oil painting honoring agricultural labor, perseverance, and the dignity of everyday work through fragmented form and layered color. Inspired by rural life and the agricultural landscape of the American West, Farron Khan uses Cubist abstraction to transform the figure into a symbolic reflection on endurance, nourishment, and the often-overlooked individuals who sustain local communities. Shifting planes and geometric distortions emphasize both the physical demands of labor and the emotional connection between worker and land, while the painting’s warm palette reinforces themes of resilience, humanity, and shared cultural identity.
Mixed media on wood panel,
16 × 25 inches
Totemic Immigration is a contemporary Cubist oil painting exploring migration, identity, and cultural transformation through stacked symbolic forms and fragmented figurative imagery. Influenced by themes of displacement, adaptation, and collective memory, Farron Khan uses layered geometry and shifting perspectives to reflect the emotional complexity of movement across borders, histories, and generations. The totemic structure suggests both resilience and burden, emphasizing how personal and cultural identities are continuously shaped through migration and shared experience. Through abstraction and symbolism, the work examines belonging, survival, and the evolving nature of human connection.