Khamosh Manzar, Bolti Tareekh – A Silent Landscape Echoing History

This work captures the haunting stillness of a Karachi morning, where time lingers among the crumbling facades of colonial architecture. Structures that seem to breathe with forgotten stories and fading echoes of grandeur. Rendered in a daring fusion of bitumen and petrol, the piece transcends the boundaries of traditional media, embracing a raw, visceral language born of fire, earth, and decay. My practice explores this rare and volatile materiality—bitumen, dark and ancient as oil-slicked soil, and petrol, fleeting and explosive. Together conjuring textures that bleed, crack, and stain like memory itself. The result is a surface both fragile and defiant, mirroring the soul of the city it seeks to evoke.