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“Take my hand, don’t worry,” she said. “I’ll be right here.” I shook my head. She sat on the tiled edge, her legs dangling. I hesitated a moment, contemplating how to get in without feeling cold or scared. Then she pushed me and all I heard as I hit the water was laughter. When IContinue reading “Splash”

This time last year, this time last year, it repeated like a mantra. This time last year, he was still here. This song was popular. He will never hear it again. This song became popular afterwards. He never even got to hear it. What else has he missed since then? Milestones, too many to count.Continue reading “Archive – The Life After”

It is a new semester and new projects are underway. I am still making maquettes with the intention of bringing them into my current projects in some form. I have also shown I Give You Togetherness  at the VAV Gallery and Arprim in the last five months. Here are the two most current dioramas, with othersContinue reading “Togetherness Continued”

The semester is almost over but I had my final critique last Friday for my collage class and presented I Give You Togetherness, a project consisting of maquettes and digital prints of scenarios staged in those miniature spaces, culminating in a small photo book. Using the notions of family and home as starting points, IContinue reading “I Give You Togetherness”

The video for my artist book, Breaking with Tradition – The Life and Death of Qandeel Baloch, is now online. This book is part of the Boundless Dialogues artist book project, which I was involved in from October 2017 until April 2018. The project is a collaboration between Concordia Print Media part-time faculty members Bonnie Baxter, JennyContinue reading “Breaking with Tradition – My Response to Jacques Fournier”

Manifest, 2018, screen print on newsprint, cardboard, foam core, found objects.  Memories are fragile things. The beginning of the story reveals a room of possessions. This chair was bought in Karachi and has seen a variety of uses: bums, clothes, towel racks, history. The painting is really a drawing, a map of remembrances and aContinue reading “Manifest”

Record, 2018 – A project containing two handwritten accordion books, The Lesson and Historiography, following my maternal grandmother‘s cursive script, as well as letters and photographs, pertaining to the themes of family (and by extension recipes), memory, and personal archives. The photos don’t really capture the scale of these books but my aim was toContinue reading “Record”

It has been a while since I last posted, though life certainly has been busy. With crunch time almost upon us, it may be a while before I post again. I wanted to share this work I presented in January for my collage class, titled The Matriarchs. Combining collage on paper to create a family portrait,Continue reading “The Matriarchs”

As 2017 winds down, let’s take some time to reflect on the year we have all had. Politically it’s been exhausting, but there have been triumphs amongst the bad things. In my case, it was going to Concordia, rediscovering the joys of making art, and learning new skills. I hope 2018 brings more of the same,Continue reading “Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!”

Birthright – Inheritance of a Legacy weaves personal family history with a broader social commentary on twenty-first century young Pakistanis who have made a difference or have given their lives trying to. Invoking the idea of home, combined with objects of material culture, the work speaks to origins and the inheritance of history, be itContinue reading “Birthright – The Inheritance of a Legacy”