Author: khushboo7

There is no soul left in my city | 2020 Medium: Watercolors, colored pencil, & ink on handmade khadi paper Dimensions: 13.8 x 44.5 inch

The Perfect Fit | 2022 Medium: Pencil colours on paper Dimensions: 11.5 x 8 inch note: The drawings of a pond and terrestrial flowers served as a tool to understand and re-experience the emotions of entering a new territory or a place and finding one’s place in a new environment whilst forming new relationships.

Ek tha teetar ek batair (1-9) | 2022 Medium: plant-based dyes, wire mash and stitching on paper Dimensions: 9.5-inch diameter Note: The 9-piece series explores human relations and the formation of fictive or chosen kinships and co-existence. Its title is derived from a popular nursery rhyme in Urdu of the same name where teeter and…

Thirteen and a Half Nights | 2022 Medium: Plant based dyes, Multani Mitti on handmade khadi paper Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.2 inch This installation of 13 light boxes revives my grandmother’s wartime stories—tales of survival from her village during the 1971 Indo-Pak War, told under the glow of a gas lamp (‘the gola’) during nightly…

Tetris of migration: Cartographies of Self | 2022 Medium: Plant-based dyes and Ink on handmade khadi paper Dimensions: 14 x 9.5 inch This artwork takes the form of a hand-bound, accordion-fold book, featuring maps of locations that played a significant role in my formative years whilst migrating from Pakistan to India. Each map represents a…