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As an artist, Mohammad creates a visual reality for herself, where her past and present, her Pakistani and her American identities, can all coexist.
Through printmaking she combines anthropological research with her fascination with urban architecture. She employs various print- making techniques to process complex feelings that arise from working with underserved communities and to negotiate her own presence as a Pakistani immigrant in the United States. Some of her most recent works have been sculptural woodcut prints and monotypes of architectural structures in her hometown, Karachi. These structures symbolize resilience. Her process of creating prints, where she breaks images down into shapes around which she builds the main subject, enables her to take an emotional inventory of their personal symbolism. She draws inspiration from images she captures of spaces undergoing change.
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