Prayer Rugs
2024–2026
Prayer Rug 1, 96 x 252 in., each unit 24 x 36 in.; mixed media: digitally manipulated photos of landscapes of Gilgit-Baltistan printed with archival inks, collage, gold leaf, mounted on board.
Prayer Rug 2, 2025, 72 x 216 in.; mixed media collage of digitally manipulated archival prints of Gilgit-Baltistan landsacpe on Matt Litho paper mounted on MDF fiberborad, gold leaf
Koel Gallery
Karachi, Pakistan
Alhamra Arts Center
Lahore, Pakistan
Tulsa Artist Fellowship
Tulsa, OK
Prayer Rugs—Sacred Geometries of the Land
Collaged images of ecologically threatened landscapes are set against gold ground. The triangular cuts follow the geometry the mountains already hold—peaks, fault lines, strata. Fragments from different parts of the landscape reconfigure into new wholes. Digitally manipulated colors transform the terrain into something fantastical, celebratory. Gold and image tessellate: the images reveal glimpses of the mountains, the gold reveals its sacred geometry. Islamic geometric tradition recognizes such patterns as the underlying order of creation, the infinite, the unity behind multiplicity. Gold transmutes the earthen into the sacred, carrying the pattern past the landscape images. These panels are an offering, a call to prayer to the earth, for mutual care and healing, a protest against environmental destruction, evoking the land's spiritual vitality.
Prayer Rugs
Mixed media: digitally manipulated photos of landscapes of Gilgit-Baltistan, collage, gold leaf, mounted on board.
Left Panel: 96 x 180 in., each unit 24 x 36 in. with a total of 20 pieces.
Right Panel: 96 x 216 in., each unit 24 x 36 in. with a total of 24 pieces
Prayer Rugs
Mixed media installation: photo collage, gold leaf, tourmaline, wood, digitally manipulated prints; 228 x 108 x 24 in.
Prayer Rugs (detail)
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