Amir H. Fallah’s Fort Series is an essential precursor to the artist's iconic Veiled Portrait works. Inspired by Fallah’s upbringing in the suburbs of Virginia, these paintings were developed in 2008, and sought to replicate childhood memories of time spent drawing, playing in the woods, and building forts. In The Lords, Baby Snatchers, and I Put You on a Pedestal #1, Fallah enlists pillows, tables, and books to reconstruct the haphazard spaces born from childhood imagination—homes, castles, and secret hideaways carefully assembled from domestic objects readily on hand. After photographing the precarious tableaux, he would deconstruct the arrangements, only to reconfigure them in painting, thereby merging the practices of sculpture, photography, and painting. This is the nascent stage where Fallah begins to understand objects as extensions of a person in a particular moment. Continuing to explore his adolescent imagination and inspiration from his upbringing, Fallah introduces paintings of plants to represent people.