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Lot’s Daughters (Barking up the Wrong Tree)
screen print and acrylic on canvas 12'' x 12''
“My body of work thus far has developed from a deeply personal space. It blends
together the experience-based as well as the aca- demically informed. As a child of immigrants from distinct regions that have experienced colonization, both the Caribbean and Pakistan, I have gathered my family’s oral history and turned to academics to fill in the blanks and apprise the full story. This is how I have found myself in a space that is uniquely mine and yet a story that parallels and transcends for marginalized people to find solace in. I work un- der the ethos that every woodblock that is salvaged lived a life before it met my tools and studio table; every concept that I bring to life existed outside of my head as a reality faced or interpreted by ances- tors long ago; every conversation of oppression, the intersection of religion and activism, how politics have corrupted and yet propelled countries forward in development... these are all conversations that have echoed throughout time as culture has shifted, albeit sometimes like a pendulum.”
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