Khud Kalami – 1

Sadia’ s work on other hand narrates happy times and mindfulness. Amorphous forms and symbols in her painting are both sacred and mundane at the same time.  The use of sand and wood scrapes, as a main medium for painting, is reminiscent of the time she spent with these materials at a beach in Karachi. Her training as a miniature painter allowed her to amalgamate two styles of painting, abstract from far but on closer inspectionthe technique of gold-leaf gilding and the grainy texture of sand. The work reminds us of the material and rendered surface ‘Purdakht‘- similar to miniature paintings.