The art that brought her into the spotlight of the art world was her series entitled '' Veiled '' . After 9/11 , '' Veiled '' drew from the stereotype of what Persian women looked like , due to the veils they would wear . Afnan took the veil and turned it into a different type of veil . Her '' Veiled '' series focuses on the non physical veils all humans have inside of themselves : “ Veiled emotions , veiled threats , veiled feelings . ” The material Afnan used for the veils over top of her works was medical gauze from the pharmacy . She took the gauze and colored it in blacks and browns , laying it over script , sometimes even making new forms with it
9/11
September 11 attacks
Maliheh Afnan