Freya Jewels and Magic

Lariab’s life remains positively unpredictable. Currently living in Islamabad, she is a visual artist and published writer currently engaged in developing and managing strategies for community engagement programs. Her research—guided by osmosis between sciences, art, faith, and philosophy—explores the romantic output of paradoxes and thoughts in a myriad of dimensions. Lariab’s trajectory has been borderless with multiple published literary pieces, international exhibitions, projects, and features, including in the UK, Canada, Sri Lanka, India, Brazil, Turkey, Iran, and the US. After a year of strictly visual art-related post-graduation engagements, she branched into working with grassroots bodies, startups, social networks, and platforms in leading capacities to create opportunities for indigenous creative voices and democratize the national art scene. Lariab founded Her Pink Wine in 2019 to organize her diverse portfolio and direct creative projects. She completed her BFA with distinction from the National College of Arts earlier that same year. Lariab has professional certification in leadership studies from McKinsey and Company (2023 program) and is currently enrolled in Google’s project management program.

Love—Loss—Death. An observer who shapes her reality through participation, Lariab exists as a paradox—never confined to a single identity but continuously flowing between many. With the possibility of dimensions beyond our understanding, her practice intertwines paradoxes of fiction and nonfiction, exploring creative possibilities within the very fabric of the universe’s laws.

These two gift boxes, embodying aspects of Freya, the Norse goddess, merge Lariab’s deep-rooted fascination with mythology and dimensionality with her latest artistic venture—crafted surreal scapes within acrylic boxes. Freya, a figure of duality, walks the battlefields and teaches magic to warrior gods. She rides a chariot, gathering jewels and adornments—symbols of power and desire. Revered for her influence over matters of the heart and her love for music, she traverses the sites of Armageddon, collecting the souls of heroes and the valiant. “The marvelous is always beautiful; anything marvelous is beautiful… In fact, only the marvelous is beautiful.”