I’m into a pen and ink mental place…or felt tip pen and paper I should say today. I came across Nadia Khawaja’s work and love it for the same reasons I loved Virginia’s yesterday.
As the Time Out Dubai story says, “The repetition in each gestured stroke of her pen mimics a dancing rhythm.” To me they look like rings in the trunk of a tree but I really appreciate the near meditative place she must be in as she does these drawings, they’re so regular and rhythmic.
Nadia lives in Lahore, Pakistan and studied at the National College of Arts there as well as in Aix-en-Provence at the Ecole d’Art.
She’s not the easiest to find info about online but I do know that she has experimented with printmaking, photography, collage, video art and screenprinting. The above, again, looks like hair to me.
I mean, seriously. When you look at these works from far away it’s crazy to see that they are so regular in line density and tone. The below is a close up of the above.
Her work was shown this summer at the Thomas Erben Gallery in NYC, wish I could have seen it in person!
The above looks like a cityscape or antique map but it’s just her drawing. She talks about discovering where the works go as they happen in front of her, which is interesting as, as the Time Out piece says, “we see a quiet memento to an artist shaping themselves through discipline and introspection.”
Tags: 2D, drawing, repetitive