Nick Nazmi (b. Chicago, 1991) creates an array of paintings and drawings in which apparitions, lost souls, and characters in a book are stuck in their nostalgia for a time and place that is no longer accessible. His work is influenced heavily by Persian folklore and the poetry of his father and grandfather from Iran. Nazmi lives in Brooklyn, New York.

The paintings he describes in this episode are:

• Grant Wood (American, 1891–1942)
  
  Death on Ridge Road
  
  1935
  
  Oil on masonite
  
  32 ⅛” × 39 1/16” × 1 5/16”
  
  Williams College Museum of Art
  
  Gift of Cole Porter
  
  


• Stone City, Iowa
  
  oil on wood panel
  
  30¼ x 40”
  
  Joslyn Art Museum
  
  Gift of the Art Institute of Omaha, 1930.35; Art © Estate of Grant Wood/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY