Stories In Clay
Clay is my way of telling stories, quiet, human, and often unfinished. Rather than illustrating a fixed narrative, each piece holds a moment, a gesture, or a feeling, leaving space for interpretation.
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My work draws from everyday life, memory, and imagination: figures leaning toward one another, forms shaped to hold light, vessels made for gathering. These stories emerge intuitively, carried through form, surface and use rather than explanation.
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Stories in Clay is about allowing objects to speak softly.
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They do not demand attention but reward closeness, revealing meaning through touch, presence, and time.
Clay Tablets
Herd Mentality
The herd follows a single path.
The outsider drifts elsewhere.
Free from inhibition, some remain suspended in a euphoric garden, watching and quietly questioning the behaviours that shape the world.
56cm x 38cm
Terracotta with low fired glazes
18cm diameter
Introspection
Seated in my friend Goldie’s apartment in Karachi, I look into a mirror, a moment of introspection. A fragment of Moin Farooqui’s painting on the wall anchors the scene to that place.
40cm x 34 cm
Table Murals
Still Alive, Still Life
This table mural celebrates the fleeting vitality of everyday farm life, cows grazing, goats moving, fish swimming, chickens pecking, and freshly harvested vegetables. Still Alive, Still Life captures that delicate moment when life is present, just before it transforms into a frozen memory on the plate, a reflection on the beauty and transience of life.
35cm x 35cm
Shaadi Mubarak
A wedding scene unfolds: the couple seated on a sofa, surrounded by gifts, candles, and decorations, while cash drifts through the air, a quiet reflection on how excess often overshadows meaning. Introspection
50cm x 40cm
Cousins
Three cousins sit on a sofa in their ancestral home. The grandparents remain, once in a portrait, now transformed into two watchful birds at the window.
Turbans
A collection of faces, men wearing turbans and a single woman in a face veil.
Rooted in childhood memories of neighbouring countries, these images now reflect realities that have firmly embedded themselves in our shared society.
Portraits From Another World
Formed from cut‑out clay, I call them my 3D/2D figures. Joined into standing structures, these portraits reveal multiple faces and imagined characters. Viewed from different sides, each piece becomes a shifting portrait, familiar, invented and quietly otherworldly.
Screaming to Come Out
​Two identities occupy a single form.
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One recedes, contained and controlled; the other pushes forward, mouth open, unable to remain silent.
The work explores the tension of a suppressed self, a voice buried within, pressing toward visibility, expression, and release.
25cm high
Light Bearers
Abstract figures shaped intuitively, bold in colour and a little funky in spirit. Each one holds, cradles, or balances light in its own way. These pieces are less concerned with symmetry and more with presence, playful, slightly off-beat forms that invite warmth into a space. Made over many years and in varied sizes, they celebrate light as something felt as much as seen.
