Next Stage

Saba: 

Art has been used as a medium to make statement, let it be political, religious or at times a reflection of ones culture/ traditions or of personal life. over the past couple of months while working  on the project: through the looking glass, I have had the opportunity to  work with Tarla's photography and create paintings. along the line Tarla was able to capture a few female artist in their working environments i.e. during their art performances. 

 Over the course of this project, the imagery and the pattern we were working on changed, where initially we were discussing capturing our subjects within the boundaries of a house as the world perceives women to be working in, we shifted to women working within their normal house environment  as well as in open spaces and/or different work environment. 

 Previous paintings discussed the life of house help during the pandemic. The new line of paintings will discuss artist in their work environment photographed by Tarla. Melissandre Varin  and Ayesha Jones, the two artist Tarla documented while they performed. 

 

 

     A drawing experiment to illustrate the idea of the painting.

Tarla

Working alongside Saba, her classic representation of sitters and influence of Amrita Sher-Gil. Originally the idea was to keep everything digital. However only working digital wasn’t creating the desired results of exploration. Repurposing the images Saba has set as homage to Sher-Gil, the muted undertones, soft pastels I have reprinted on Polaroids into a square formation of two photographs sent. The quality has degraded through reprinting, each box contains a fragment of a moment. This has been made in response to Saba’s interpretation of the photographs that I have sent to Pakistan. Images sent over a digital signal that you cannot see, allowing me to communicate through screens of squares and rectangles. Each women have their golden halo, engulfing and elevating their status, of woman and worker. Domestic jobs are not seen as high skilled roles in both countries. Low pay and social conditions affect women and all though the pandemic shone a light on frontline workers being the backbone of services an improvement on wages has not been seen.