Wardha Shabbir
One World Here / Another There, 2020
Gouache on paper
Diptych
Diptych
Each: 73 x 73 cm (28 3/4 x 28 3/4 in)
Each panel signed and dated on the reverse
Further images
'My work is pictography of my own journey/Siraat as a female Muslim living in Pakistan. By exploring the realms of my own painted foliage I am trying to decipher the...
"My work is pictography of my own journey/Siraat as a female Muslim living in Pakistan. By exploring the realms of my own painted foliage I am trying to decipher the meaning of self through my own work. I am moving beyond the representation of individual episodes, experiences and have begun to explore the very act of our journeying through these paintings.
"A single geometric shape of a cube has a lot of significance in Islamic art; this shape can further be expanded and multiplied to form a pattern. It thus implies the infinitude that is a part of all geometric developments in the art of illustrated manuscripts. Abundant foliage is a component of the quintessential Islamic garden; some of the hedges and avenues that I make are angular while some are circular and cubic. Together, they suggest the prospect of limitlessness that geometry offers, of endlessness set in motion by the intersection of lines and circles. But the fact that the botanical shapes, which I make, are tree-lined indicates an organic geometry.
"A cube here becomes a person and a vessel denoting the omni presence of power or the point of departure within one self to another dimension of subconscious. Which again becomes an image of self-realization like my other works. The cube becomes the centre of a circle, which is considered as a profound key in discipline of geometry."
"A single geometric shape of a cube has a lot of significance in Islamic art; this shape can further be expanded and multiplied to form a pattern. It thus implies the infinitude that is a part of all geometric developments in the art of illustrated manuscripts. Abundant foliage is a component of the quintessential Islamic garden; some of the hedges and avenues that I make are angular while some are circular and cubic. Together, they suggest the prospect of limitlessness that geometry offers, of endlessness set in motion by the intersection of lines and circles. But the fact that the botanical shapes, which I make, are tree-lined indicates an organic geometry.
"A cube here becomes a person and a vessel denoting the omni presence of power or the point of departure within one self to another dimension of subconscious. Which again becomes an image of self-realization like my other works. The cube becomes the centre of a circle, which is considered as a profound key in discipline of geometry."