"Words are just a way we communicate. Images are a way we communicate. And I couldn't figure out why they had to be in different baskets."
"Perilous Order" (1994-1997)
"Perilous Order," 1994-1997
Vegetable color, dry pigment, watercolor, tea on hand-prepared Wasli paper, 10 1/2 x 8 inches
Photo by Tom Powel
Courtesy Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York
Vegetable color, dry pigment, watercolor, tea on hand-prepared Wasli paper, 10 1/2 x 8 inches
Photo by Tom Powel
Courtesy Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York
"The early works were primarily drawn out of memory and were very different from miniatures- much looser, abstract, gestural. And then there was a desire to provide order, a structure to that. And that’s when I started experimenting with breaking the surfaces of these very precisely painted images. Everything would have its place, every little thing, and then I would go and break the borders. Images fall from within and to the borders, and there's lots of drawing done on top."
- Shahzia Sikander
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