Through my practice I unravel a personal voyage, embracing a notion of displacement bridging between abstracted memories of visual information revealed in the process of automatic drawing. I have been generating mental imagery, distorted and manipulated through digital forms; a bifurcation between abstract expressionism and surrealism. In all the work I am igniting and overlapping recurring themes of nostalgia, melancholy, and memory; touching upon personal issues around a sense of loss, correlated to loved ones of my life.

Through the meditative processes of drawing, my thoughts and imagination are provoked and stimulated through the build-up of layers, creating a dreamlike quality flowing between visual worlds, uncovering a unique vocabulary of gesture through motifs such as ladders and windows. This process mimics the unravelling emotional weight of life. Nostalgia takes over completely and entices us to look deeply and find connections in the dynamic rhythms of organic structured forms and inner and outer realms of nature.

“I find that I am led into deep sensations of time and space … there is a magic sense of depth, a vortex of colour which carries the eye with rhythmic motion into a realm which transcends our limited field of observation”.
Zarina Hashmi