Avish Khebrehzadeh creates drawn animations often overlain onto drawings or paintings. Through a pared-down aesthetic her works explore the human condition, and identities in transition. Khebrehzadeh builds up elusive narratives that allude to ideas and emotions questioning universal themes of time, identity and relationships between humanity and the natural world. Theater II / Ill Affection (2007), inspired by a Thomas Mann short story, explores the dysfunctional relationship between human and animal and the wider relationship between humankind and the world it inhabits.