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The minimalist Zen aesthetic of Zarina’s work owes a lot to her meditative outlook, which helped her process the epochal events that impacted her irrevocably. The Partition left her with a broken family and a lifelong sense of rootlessness, which was reinforced by her peripatetic life—she lived in nine cities before settling in New York—leaving her on an eternal search for ‘home’. In this Untitled serigraph, the indented division of space into black and white alludes to the geographical markers that divide people clinically, ignoring the grey zones that have more bearing on the affected people instead of the water-tight compartments.