In Keyhani’s world, objects are characters, even friends: one “meets” an antique chair with its own biography, a teacup might be a she, or a he. It’s a worldview, an aesthetic, that is part escape, part survival — a response to the harshness and pain of daily life and an unrelenting news cycle, an armour worn by a particularly sensitive soul, and a defiant statement not only about the value of playfulness (“adults need more play,” she says), but of the effort it takes to cope. If dressing up as a marble column and wearing a towering face mask of baby’s breath flowers seems outrageous, well, so does the deadly plight of migrants and the testimony of Christine Blasey Ford — which she’s also posted about.