Skin Upon Skin — Split Lip Magazine

Lightly-wrinkled textile portrait: color-blocked fabrics pieced together with zigzag-stitch line work. A dark green figure with red nails carefully threads the thick brows of a redhead with voluminous hair. A quilt-like pattern fills the background. — “Skin Upon Skin” by Ainaz Alipour.
Textile, 85″ x 42″, 2024.

Ainaz Alipour (@ainaz_alipour) is an Iranian-born artist and educator working across textiles, sculpture, and digital media. Their work examines how bodies are shaped by systems of control and care, using embroidery and fabric as sites of resistance. Rooted in Iranian craft traditions, their practice engages intimacy, memory, and the politics of touch.