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Zarina Hashmi converted technique into the focal point of her work, the outcome of a multi-layered process that she mastered. The viewer is left to interpret the work from her own perspective; the geometric shapes and textures relate to our everyday lives while grounded in sentiment. Hashmi’s work is an ode to space—whether home, city or country, and her minimal lexicon has a maximal impact in the feelings with which it is wrought or communicated. The sharp lines in this work act as barriers, blocking our sight and our access—whether to a homeland or another land. The artist questions the very notion of barriers in a world increasingly busy with planting them.