Love letter II
Love letter II
Date
2021
Edition Size
unique
Media
Embroidery, Ink, Textile
Format
Artist Book
Dimensions
7.5 × 8.5 × 1 in
Pages
12
Collection
Collection Development, Unique Books$ 3,800.00
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Temple University
Love letter II, perhaps one of the best examples of how Khan uses the most obvious and simple of aesthetic structures and symbols and completely complicates and problematizes their simplicity and innocence. She obliterates any possibility of naive or innocent readings of her compositions. Letters become bloodstains, bloodstains become letters, blood coalesces into clots, menses, organs, that demand some kind of hepatomantic divination.
Text within the book:
کس قدر بے آواز تھی وہ شب
How silent was that nightکتنی گہری
How deepاُس کی سحر انگیز آنکھوں کی طرح
Like those magical eyesہم بھٹکتے ہیں کسی بےجان دل کی آواز پر
I went astray to the sound of a dead heartکوئی بُلا رہا ہے اب بھی
Someone is calling stillبچپن کی بھولی ہوئی اُس شام سے
From that forgotten evening of my childhoodپُکارتا ہے مجھے
Calling out for meجانا چاہتی ہوں
I long to goبہت دور
Far away.