I work under the identity of The Modern Oracle, an artist and visual strategist engaged in translating the machinery of the modern world into contemplative, symbolic forms. My practice is rooted in contradiction: classical technique and industrial aesthetic, mythic intuition and mechanical logic, surface noise and buried structure. The result is a body of work that feels like unearthed technology—equal parts relic and revelation.
Drawing from traditions as diverse as Bauhaus geometry, Neo-Industrial Pop Surrealism, mid-century realism, and gestural abstraction, I construct layered visual systems that ask not just to be seen, but to be decoded. My materials—grids, metallic hues, textured layers, anatomical precision—are not purely aesthetic choices. They serve as conduits for a deeper inquiry into how we shape, and are shaped by, the systems around us.
I see my role not just as a painter, but as a kind of interpreter. A builder of visual tools. Each work is an oracle in itself—a symbolic object meant to clarify, to disrupt, and to reorient. I am less concerned with representing reality and more interested in distilling its underlying framework. This isn’t mysticism in the traditional sense—it’s a quiet form of philosophical engineering; such irony!
My work appeals to those drawn to paradox: to the poetic logic of machines, to the beauty of complexity, to the idea that truth can be abstract, and still hold form. It is art for the intellectually restless—those seeking silence inside the noise.
Shahin Zonoozi Fine Art 