ROOTS is a comprehensive collection of Mally Khorasantchi's powerful artwork that features her paintings, collages, and illustrations from her early creations in 2005 to her work from the present day. Khorasantchi is known for colorful, large-scale contemporary art inspired by nature, its mysteries, and the role of humankind within it. Her artistry as a painter is energized by the interaction between order and chaos, opposites found in both the natural and human worlds. Boldly painted images of symbols, lines, and shapes are hallmarks of her complex visual language. Complementing the artwork, ROOTS offers thoughtful insights from well-known art critics Barbara Anderson Hill and Edward Lucie-Smith about the artist's personal story, as well as the themes and artistic aim of her compositions. In the book, Khorasantchi explores some of the many factors that have shaped her work including her childhood in post-World War II Germany, her lifelong study of artists and philosophers such as Gerhard Richter, Hermann Hesse, Pierre Bonnard, Joseph Beuys, and Rudolf Steiner, and her relocation to the United States in 1992. Beautifully designed with a variety of high-quality papers and overlays that emphasize the character of her work, ROOTS is a rich compendium of Mally Khorasantchi's deeply compelling artwork. About the Artist Mally (Breuer) Khorasantchi was born shortly after the end of World War II in Düsseldorf, Germany, and discovered her lifelong love of drawing and painting as a young child. She studied with several noted professional German artists and emigrated to the United States in 1992. A successful professional artist since 2005, she has created works that have been collected by private and corporate clients both in the U.S. and abroad.