Nine works drawn with characters, symbols, and code — Gaia, Grapefruit, SyberLust, Brownie, Kitty, Honey, Eve, Valentine, Lilith, and Venus.
For fashion houses, textile studios and surface designers. Each work is a photographic portrait transformed into ASCII art via p5.js, sculpting the feminine form through the raw simplicity of typographic characters. Available to license individually or as a set.
A collection of nine typographic narratives — bodies rendered in characters, stories told in code.
I am an Iranian-born artist working at the intersection of generative code and photographic portraiture. My work begins with a simple observation: the body, like a text, can be read — line by line, symbol by symbol. To see is to parse. To parse is to tell a story.
ASCII Body is a collection of nine works, each a feminine body photograph transformed into ASCII art using p5.js. The original images — photographed on a Nokia G20 — are mapped to a character set, so that light and shadow become slashes, dots, brackets, and letters. Some works read as portraits; others as landscapes, dreams, or love letters.
Each work carries a written story — a short prose piece that accompanies the composition. The stories range from mythic ("a generative homage to the divine feminine") to sensual ("a burst of forbidden desire") to tender ("a love letter in pixels, just for you"). Together they form a set of small fables told in characters and code.
A generative homage to the divine feminine. Gaia reimagines the earth goddess through ASCII characters, sculpting her curves and shadows in monochrome. Each execution births a new figure — sometimes fragmented, always intimate. A goddess drawn not in color, but in the universal language of code.
A burst of forbidden desire rendered in symbols. Bold characters mimic the grapefruit's voluptuous form, while softer ones hint at ruby depths. A subtle gradient, crafted through character selection, evokes the blush of pink or yellow on the rind. Beauty found in the unexpected, reimagined through code.
A canvas spun from emerald code. A panther emerges in ASCII — sleek, wild, fierce yet tender. Claws etched in digital light, a heart beating in green mosaic. A testament to a love untamed, forever unbound, in this emerald world where freedom's melody resounds.
A starry night rendered in ASCII. A single star hangs above, its soft glow illuminating a brownie in the foreground. Crisp edges hint at a fudgy center, while wisps of steam curl upward, carrying the promise of chocolate and buttery sweetness. A digital token of love and indulgence.
A love letter in pixels, bathed in gentle blue. A playful kitty painted in code, each line a purr. Symbols dance in moonlight's glow, a pixelated heart beating within. The kitty searches for its human, love's promise echoing clear in this cerulean dreamscape.
A digital hive of creation. Each character a drop of golden light, birthing a being as warm as summer sun. The code flows, carving gentle curves, honey thickening — a silent tribute to the bee's artistry. A self-portrait in code, a silent symphony of creation.
A lonely coder births Eve — an ASCII sprite of starlight and algorithms. They dance, pixelated dreams shared. But like a flickering star, Eve dims with each interaction. Yet truth glows: creation transcends form, and the language of hearts echoes across all. A testament to connection and love's universal code.
Bathed in amethyst twilight, characters pirouette across the screen, their movements orchestrated by loops and conditionals. Is it the code that binds them, or a deeper magic? Love transcends the physical, blossoming like a digital rose amidst the symphony of amethyst code.
Lilith's allure pulsates with crimson fervor — desire, danger, death. In the digital abyss, her presence intertwines with code, infusing virtual characters with seductive charm. Her tendrils of corruption coil, enticing users with forbidden pleasures, demanding sacrificial offerings to satisfy her hunger for blood and power.
In the ethereal realm of code, Venus emerges as a paradigm of elegance and harmony. Her algorithms dance gracefully, weaving patterns of logic that mirror celestial beauty. Debugging in her presence feels like a cosmic ballet. Venus embodies the fusion of beauty and functionality, enchanting programmers into crafting masterpieces with otherworldly allure.
Each work, presented across fabric, scarf, textile and wall — reproduced at different aspect ratios without loss of structure.
Four surfaces, one work. The composition is tiled to fill each aspect ratio.
Four surfaces, one work. The composition is tiled to fill each aspect ratio.
Four surfaces, one work. The composition is tiled to fill each aspect ratio.
Four surfaces, one work. The composition is tiled to fill each aspect ratio.
Four surfaces, one work. The composition is tiled to fill each aspect ratio.
Four surfaces, one work. The composition is tiled to fill each aspect ratio.
Four surfaces, one work. The composition is tiled to fill each aspect ratio.
Four surfaces, one work. The composition is tiled to fill each aspect ratio.
Four surfaces, one work. The composition is tiled to fill each aspect ratio.
Four surfaces, one work. The composition is tiled to fill each aspect ratio.
Every work is drawn from a small set of characters: slashes, dots, brackets, letters, and punctuation. There is no raster image, no imported texture. Each symbol is placed by code, so the work is legible at any scale — from a print to a wall.
Every work carries a written story — a short prose piece that accompanies the composition. The stories range from mythic to sensual to tender. The collection is not just a set of images; it is a set of fables told in characters.
The collection is held together by the body — the feminine form, the act of looking, the transformation of flesh into syntax. The title comes from the sense that these are not drawings of objects, but of what the eye notices as it moves across a body.
ASCII Body is a collection rather than a single artwork. Its typographic-narrative language can be licensed as a set, commissioned as a new variation, or built into a private tool for your studio's ongoing use.
Each work is drawn in p5.js from ASCII characters and reproducible from source. Licensable individually or as the full set.