The piece of hers that has garnered the most attention in her roughly eight months of legal residency depicts the man who once stood between her and the United States: Trump. Nasrin Sheykhi/Jeff Stevens Sheykhi holds her 2-inch Trump painting. “The smallest character in the world — the smallest president — the smallest personality, and he’s not filling out the frame. It was a symbol.”Nasrin Sheykhi Sheykhi with her Trump portrait, set symbolically on an oversize white canvas. Her Trump painting and its underlying rationale have allowed many to project their political goals onto Sheykhi, seeing in her a radically resistant immigrant with a sense of entitlement to the best America has to offer.

Source: Huffington Post August 30, 2018 09:45 UTC