KARACHI –
“Have we become so numb that we have forgotten how to celebrate the smaller things in life?” asks Sana Arjumand.
Arjumand seeks to find out why celebration of life and identity has become a far-fetched idea.
She wants to know why we have to be insecure about ourselves in dealing with issues of this era, such as globalisation and modernism.
“I believe that it is impossible to forget who we are. It is embedded in our conscience. If we embrace what we are today, it is more likely to stay,” she says.
Her work has been produced in a now ancient medium: oil paints. She paints the flag that is years old, combined with the Pakistani female of today. “It’s a combination of what is, was and is going to be; like us,” she explains.
She says, “The Pakistani people have become restricted to not thinking out of the box. We put limitations and boundaries everywhere.”
She believes that things need to be dealt with certain kind of lightness. “The positive side is overlooked, leaving us with the negative,” she remarks.
Arjumand’s paintings are a celebration of who she is and what the Quaid-e-Azam taught us about living, believing and seeking.
