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As women reach puberty in my culture, their world starts shrinking on them. They are broken before they can fully bloom with centuries of practices that marginalize their bodies and gender expression. They are treated as impure and dirty during their menstrual cycles, unable to enter mosques or touch the Quran. To control their sexuality, without consent, they are forced to undergo painful female genital mutilation operations. They are told these things are "god's will". In this piece I celebrate the collective power of the divine feminine. It channeled through me and made me strong enough so I could bloom in the darkest of places.
I grew up in a small Pakistani town as part of an insular sect. My language, movements, dress, thoughts, and even my name were things I had no control over. At 16, I was engaged to a man who was a decade older than me. Breaking away from that existence left me free, but on the outside of the tightly knit community circle I grew up with.
"Coming Full Circle" explores my fractured relationships with my family, religion, country, and even myself. The circle I left behind, now shows up as a repeated motif in my art. The series of 1 of 1 unique pieces, explores themes of love, longing and loss that come from "unbelonging" to the kinds of restrictive cliques, cults, clubs, sects or groups that can both encircle and imprison a person.
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As women reach puberty in my culture, their world starts shrinking on them. They are broken before they can fully bloom with centuries of practices that marginalize their bodies and gender expression. They are treated as impure and dirty during their menstrual cycles, unable to enter mosques or touch the Quran. To control their sexuality, without consent, they are forced to undergo painful female genital mutilation operations. They are told these things are "god's will". In this piece I celebrate the collective power of the divine feminine. It channeled through me and made me strong enough so I could bloom in the darkest of places.
I grew up in a small Pakistani town as part of an insular sect. My language, movements, dress, thoughts, and even my name were things I had no control over. At 16, I was engaged to a man who was a decade older than me. Breaking away from that existence left me free, but on the outside of the tightly knit community circle I grew up with.
"Coming Full Circle" explores my fractured relationships with my family, religion, country, and even myself. The circle I left behind, now shows up as a repeated motif in my art. The series of 1 of 1 unique pieces, explores themes of love, longing and loss that come from "unbelonging" to the kinds of restrictive cliques, cults, clubs, sects or groups that can both encircle and imprison a person.
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