Directions to My House

'Directions to My House' chronicles the fascinating life of Zarina Hashmi in her own words and images. Beginning in pre-Partition India, Zarina describes a traditional Muslim home in the small university town of Aligarh, India, the fragrant, enclosed, garden planted by her mother, Partition through the eyes of a ten-year old girl, coming of age in Paris in the 1960s, the art communities in the various cities she called home, and her current reflections on claiming New York as a home for the last forty years. Through Zarinas essays, poems, artworks and personal photographs, readers will be guided through the events and experiences that shaped Zarinas unique aesthetic. The work of Zarina is defined by her adherence to the personal and the essential. An early interest in architecture and mathematics is reflected in her use of geometry and her emphasis on structural purity. While her work tends towards minimalism, its starkness is tempered by its texture and materiality. Her art poignantly chronicles her life and recurring themes include home, displacement, borders, journey and memory.-- [http://www.sarahburney.com/directions-to-my-house].… (more)