A family of cards

Medium. Terracotta Bricks and Binder

Year. 2016

Art is not just about the finished product, its more of a process one that is never ending. My inspiration for this piece came from playing cards and the games we could play with them when we started to consider their materiality rather than that which is printed on them. So I started to play with the slices of bricks and built up compositions. The brick slices contain the defining characteristics which are inherent in the brick and due to the slight irregularities in the bricks the overall composition is Asymmetrical and can fall at any give moment but it doesn't. This particular Composition was on display at the National College of Arts, Lahore for the Thesis display 2017 for over three weeks without any marker indicating that it was not to be touched nor any separator dividing it from the public's reach but still the structure survived and remained mostly intact. Proving at least to me that even the most fragile of things can survive if people handle them with just a little amount of care.