Category: MA Visual Arts: Fine Art Digital Blog

The blog documenting my journey as I complete a Masters of Visual Arts from University of the Arts London, 2017-2019

Constellation

Constellation

That’s the name of the lightbox + squares installation. Constellation. Isn’t that brilliant? Let me tell you why… Constellations represent pathways in the sky, markers that lead you to beautiful things. The patterns may have little significance, but they lead you to the richness of the universe. They are a natural map in the sky. Once they are placed on the lightbox, the squares exhibit a murky blueness reminiscent of deep ocean or deep space. #Constellation is an unused hashtag I intend to invite people to use Small random fact: My name means constellations I read this article and the …

Final Tutorial

Final Tutorial

Mixed feelings as we approach the last few weeks of the final term. I’m so excited that we learnt so much over the past two years and are getting the chance to work together in the final show. But I’m also sad, it’s been such a great experience, I don’t know how i’ll feel once this chapter is closed. The final tutorial happened some time ago, but I only just realized I haven’t turned the notes into a post yet. The final tutorial was bittersweet for sure. Jonathan is an amazing person to talk to, a great listener and guide, …

Unit 2 Assessment

Unit 2 Assessment

Unit 2 — Reflection and Presentation The Unit brief was as follows: MAVA Fine Art Digital Unit 2 Year 2 201819 assessment brief (2) LO1 : Present a resolved body of original creative practice that has evidenced the systematic enhancement of your knowledge and understanding (communication and presentation; technical competence; personal and professional development; subject knowledge; research; experimentation): I started this MA with a vague idea that I wanted to explore contemporary manifestations of narrative art. This desire was muddied with inspiration from my surroundings; Jeddah, a desert with its own unique history and culture, with its own strange limitations. Unit …

One more addition to the final show

The climax of the Untold Edition was probably December 2018. I saw that tour around Karachi as the culmination of all the events preceding it. I also saw it as one of the resolutions of my project proposal. Yet something still nagged me… I had named the entire series The Untold Edition, based off the idea of a book, a narrative, and somewhere along the way I had imagined I would turn the video footage into a documentary or write a book about my experiences. But that felt unnatural. The Untold Edition wasn’t an anthology or a documentary, and forcing …

An Obsession with Cartography

An Obsession with Cartography

Cartography. Isn’t the word itself lovely? I have to admit, I am overall a bit obsessed with the English language. It’s my favourite language in the world. And its literature and language components were always my favourite subjects in school. So back to cartography: why is this what fascinates me now? I think it is a fascination that has always been there, but only recently surfaced. I can date it back to a childhood loving books like The Phantom Tollbooth, and an adolescence hoarding hardcopies of fantasy books that included a map to their world. And the view from a …