THE HYE-PHEN

made with love ֍ ⟩⟩ for a better digital / queer / armenian future  ❀╱╲╱╲❀

Journey to Home

Journey to Home

When I lose myself in daily life and within its challenges, I must always find a way out. And often I simply want to dance. And in my hands I feel the air, the wind, and an interesting journey takes place taking me from confusion until home. Dance and Words by Haya...
Azadouhi & Azad

Azadouhi & Azad

As an Armenian Palestinian born and raised in California, I am striving for large scale decolonization. Like the Ottomans destroyed my family’s Armenian town and the Israelis demolished my family’s Palestinian village, the Native Americans right here have...
Hello from Beirut!

Hello from Beirut!

 For this project, I wanted to engage with the idea of negotiating discordant identities – specifically through my experience as a 1st generation (first-gen born in US) Lebanese-Armenian American who is also trans/genderqueer… the feeling of being caught...
It’s a Delicate Matter

It’s a Delicate Matter

More so just that I know now what I am // DELICATE // And am OK with it showing An illustrated person holding their chest, accompanied by a disembodied hand with bleeding fingers and set of teeth
Forbidden

Forbidden

Forbidden, 2015, digital collage made of pencil drawing, lino print, photos*, internet screenshot *photographs In an attempt to assimilate into the culture of the British (post)colonial matrix of power that I grew up surrounded by, I gradually began to ignore much of...
Primer

Primer

Alan Semerdjian · Primer (A Spoken Word Poem and Collaboration with guitarist Aram Bajakian, The Armenian Poetry Project, and The Hye-Phen) Armenia, you are more than a piece of ass parade on the newsfeed. Armenia, you are the split decision. Armenia, the schism. The...