I work with materials and techniques linked to conceptual ideas and I often manipulate photographs to translate them into etchings and woodcuts to assemble into installations. What attracts me to printmaking is the involvement with the process, starting from the preparation of the matrix to what can be a long and intensive process of printing with immense possibilities to be explored. 

Over the past decade my focus has been the patriarchal values and gender-based violence in Pakistan where patriarchal control over women is exercised through institutionalized restrictive codes of behaviour, gender segregation and the ideology which associates family honour to female virtue. 

Seemingly mundane activities such as patchwork and embroidery reference the female and are a form of catharsis. My process here starts with stitching rose petals, individually shaped like a pudendum, each rose petal repeated in the act of saying: ‘He loves me, he loves me not’, implying the male volition. The final embroidery was photographed, the resulting image manipulated and printed on canvas.