Zara Kand is a symbolist painter and mixed media artist whose work conjures dreamlike states pierced by psychological depth. Raised in Europe and now rooted in the U.S., her practice delves into themes of internal alchemy—where the invisible terrain of emotion, memory, and transformation spills into the visible world. Her recent oil works unveil how inner life reshapes reality, revealing the symbolic organisms we carry beneath the surface.

In Kand’s vision, the unseen becomes conspicuously present. Her figures and forms act as emotional vessels—subtle yet saturated with meaning—guiding the viewer through states of conflict, hope, and metamorphosis. It is in this threshold between internal and external, concealed and revealed, that her images dwell: potent, intimate, and resolutely alive.