Figuratively Speaking
Canvas Gallery
Karachi, 2016
We were supposed to be seven, Oil on canvas, 8 x 11 inches.
Boys Only, Oil on canvas, 9 x 22 inches.Deliberating at the beach, Oil on canvas, 10 x 8 inches.
At polar ends, Oil on canvas, Selection 8 x 9 inches.
When there are more like you out there, Oil on canvas, 10 x 11 inches.
Uncomfortable white spaces 01, Oil on canvas, 12 x 8 inches (excerpt).
Clue (01), Oil on canvas, 14 x 16 inches.Hotch Potch, Oil on canvas, 14 x 24 inches (excerpt)
Uncomfortable white spaces 02, Oil on canvas, 7 x 9 inches (excerpt)
Finders, keepers; but what if you wished that you never found it in the first place?
As the people in the photographs became more and more unfamiliar and the locations blurred into the unrecognizable and the desire to connectall the photographic evidence together grew.
How many trajectories can one family have and when is it appropriate to draw the line? Travelling through China, Singapore and South Africa in just one album sheet, these paintings are reflections on how geographic borders and cultures neatly categorize us all but photo albums
dictate the exact opposite.