نہ کر بھلیا تیری میری،
کی تیری کی میری
“It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it.” Robert E. Lee
Taking the stance of an observer looking at land being destroyed and human lives sacrificed in the name of honour, country, religion or nation whatever name they should give to it, has led to the creation of this art work. Nobody who has fought or been in such a devastating conflict has ever returned to tell us whether it was worth it. This land belongs to no one and shall remain even after we have spilt enough blood to fill the oceans. I fear for the future generations. I have succumbed to sleepless nights in hopes for a peaceful tomorrow. This body of work takes up the loss of land, identity and lives against the backdrop of the tyranny of power. It speaks of the turmoil of the times we live in, a sad tale of wasting scarce resources to gain what can never be ours forever.
The land shall remain. ‘Na Teri te Na Meri’. Then why are we at war over it?
ARTIST STATEMENT
Human perception can present things very sensitively and for me Art is not just an activity, it is a passion. It is a medium that I used as an activist. I use it to describe my feelings, my pain. Drawing is integral to this process of how art can bridge the space between the inner world we experience and the communication of those idea through the body in the act of drawing.
I often work using fine miniature expressions across vast scale drawings that resemble maps of experience or of an imagined landscape.
I use materials from traditional Pakistan miniature painting but explode this traditional through scale, aiming to create immersive yet delicacy encounters for the viewer. I always attracted by the graceful lines, rhythm, and depth of colors in a miniature. My work is the constant search for the best way to interpret the ideas expresses my own ideologies through symbolism and drawing as a trace of feeling.