حقیقت (Reality)
حقیقت (Reality)
Date
2022
Edition Size
unique
Media
Acrylic, Embroidery, Ink, Pearl Cotton Thread, Wool
Paper
Canvas
Format
Artist Book
Dimensions
8 × 8 × 1 in
Pages
16
Location
Karachi, Pakistan
Collection
Collection Development, Unique Books$ 3,200.00
Unavailable
View Collectors
University of California, Irvine (UCI)
Artist Statement on the series of work:
When houses are abandoned, the trees stay and provide shade to the ghosts, they remain to tell stories of the residents, an endless repetition of history that no one wants to explore.
Searching for a home you turn around a corner, you see a light that reminds of a softness, hands, eyes, a love forgotten, a poem lost… humay chahiye tha milna kisi ehd e mehrbaan mein.
Another rain, everything blooms, nothing survives, all that lives is your laughter, forever echoing off the walls of my tired heart, it haunts, I made a home out of her memories, her smile, the sound of her payal. Everything rots, dar o deewar se tapkey hai bayabaan hona…
I brought ruin to my home with words I never said, with love I never gave, I slept through the days and life rushed past me, everything goes to waste, we laugh, we love, we live… purr hai saayee ki tarah mera shabistaan mujh se…Each book of this series carries a different notion of home, the reality of it, haqeeqat, the home one desires, khuwahish, or a prayer, dua, for the possibility of a home.
Text within حقیقت (Reality):
جہاں سانس لینا محال ہو
where it is difficult to breatheنہ بولنے کی مجال ہو
forbidden to speakزمین ہم سے بیزار ہو
the earth growing tired of usکوئی قہر ہم پہ سوار ہو
some calamity surrounds usآسماں تنگ پڑتا جا رہا ہے
the sky is shrinking around usکوئی خوشبو سمیٹے جا رہا ہے
someone is taking away our fragrance…ارے روکو بہاروں کو
Oh please! stop the departing spring…کہو یوں ہم سے نہ روٹھو
say, do not turn away from us like this!ابھی کلیوں کو کھلنا تھا
for the buds were yet to bloomابھی ہم کو یوں ملنا تھا
we were yet to meetکہ ہر گلی کوچے سے مہک ہماری الفت کی اٹھتی ہو
in a way that the scent of our affection would waft through alleywaysکوئی خوش رنگ سی کلی ہماری سانسوں سے اگتی ہو
making vibrant buds sprout from our tangled breathsابھی ہم کو یوں ملنا تھا
we were yet to meet…