Walk to School
Walk to School I
25x35cm
Gouache and gold on wasli
25x35cm
Gouache and gold on wasli
Walk to School II
25x35cm-each folio
Gouache and Gold on tea stained wasli
25x35cm-each folio
Gouache and Gold on tea stained wasli
Walk to School III
25x35cm
Gouache and Gold on tea stained wasli
This is a group of paintings that depict the remembered experience of my daily journey to Art School.
I grew up under the military rule of Muhammad Zia ul Haq in Pakistan, when religion was folded into law and punishment became spectacle. The Hudood Ordinances and morality laws entered ordinary life, and fear settled early in the body. I did not only hear about these punishments. I witnessed them. I saw a man publicly lashed. I saw a woman stoned to death in front of the Lahore High Court.
Against this backdrop you walked to art school each day. The city surged with horns and exhaust, threaded with danger. Bomb blasts were sudden ruptures. You carried drawing boards and wet paintings through scorching heat and monsoon rain, sometimes walking miles when transport collapsed.
This series records a young girl walking through a regime, through sirens and spectacle, heat and harassment, family pressure and public punishment, and refusing, day after day, to turn back.
25x35cm
Gouache and Gold on tea stained wasli
This is a group of paintings that depict the remembered experience of my daily journey to Art School.
I grew up under the military rule of Muhammad Zia ul Haq in Pakistan, when religion was folded into law and punishment became spectacle. The Hudood Ordinances and morality laws entered ordinary life, and fear settled early in the body. I did not only hear about these punishments. I witnessed them. I saw a man publicly lashed. I saw a woman stoned to death in front of the Lahore High Court.
Against this backdrop you walked to art school each day. The city surged with horns and exhaust, threaded with danger. Bomb blasts were sudden ruptures. You carried drawing boards and wet paintings through scorching heat and monsoon rain, sometimes walking miles when transport collapsed.
This series records a young girl walking through a regime, through sirens and spectacle, heat and harassment, family pressure and public punishment, and refusing, day after day, to turn back.