Chitarkari _ Slate engraving > Her Stories on my Stone Henge

Slate stone engraving
2022
Slate stone engraving
2022
Her Stories on Stone Henge
slate stone engraving
2022
Slate stone engraving
2022
2022
Slate stone engraving
2022
Slate stone engraving
2022
Her Stories on Stone Henge
Slate stone engraving
2022
Her Stories on Stone Henge
Slate stone engraving
2022
Her Stories on Stone Henge
Slate stone engraving
2022
Slate stone engraving
2022
Slate stone engraving
2022
Slate stone engraving
2022

"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman"
Virginia Woolf

The inspiration for this body of work is the millennium rich heritage of Pakistan. It is a celebration of my childhood memories of playing in the ancient slate cemeteries of the Gangar Hills of Hazara and, even as a child, marvelling at the rock carvings in Gilgit, where my parents lived in the 70s and being mesmerised by the Gandhara art I saw at the Peshawar museum. The wonder of rock carvings is such that, even after thousands of years, they tell stories of a world gone by. If my work survives a thousand years, I wonder what stories my markings on the stones will tell.
I have a special bond with the ancient trees of Islamabad, because protecting them as natural monuments has been a passion since 2006. Displaying my work under an ancient tree is also a celebration of protecting the wonderful art of mother nature.