Pyaar ka

This work is the final piece that was completed for my solo exhibition exhibition, reflecting the end of a journey to make room for a new
beginning. This painting explores the integral role that death and rebirth play in love; for parts of myself and my life have had to
die to make room for new ones. This piece marks the realisation that whilst it is necessary, it is a lonely path to individuation, to step into a new beginning carrying forward traces of all the lives led previously.
The different forms of myself in the work are used to convey varying issues and
ideas of living in, and as, a female body. They also serve to depict the process of girlhood to womanhood. My family appears in my work to explore how external factors both dismantle and aid the process of becoming. I have been greatly
influenced by Frida Kahlo, Micheal Armitage and Nadia Waheed, female artists who use self-portraiture to interrogate the self in relation to the world.