KARBATH 02 Artist Residency, March 2019
Untitled. 2019. Oil on Cream Core Mat board, 32x44 Inches. Available
Untitled. 2019. Oil on Cream Core Mat board, 32x44 Inches. Available
Untitled. 2019. Oil on Cream Core Mat board, 32x44 Inches. Available
Untitled. 2019. Smoke & Charcoal on Chinese Rice Paper, 7x10 Inches. Available
Untitled. 2019. Watercolor on Chinese Rice Paper, 7x10 Inches. Available
Artist Statement
“For the artist communication with nature remains the most essential condition. The artist is human; himself nature; part of nature within natural space.” Paul Klee
Residency at Karbath 02 in many senses proved a thematic extension of the subjects that cultivate my creative practice: sublime, ecology and landscape. This enriching experience started with the photography of the mesmerizing beauty of sunset and sunrise; the scenes I have probably never encountered in my entire life while living in Lahore. Even though the residency is over, the experience of photographing itself and the images captured in this experience are so awe-inspiring that my thoughts are still stirring me. Though the time of the residency was same when the two atomic powers, Pakistan and India, were at the brink of a full-fledged war and the emotions were touching their peak, the natural sublimity of the rural suburbs let mind and body get engrossed within. The triptych landscape is the response of that communion with the natural space.
