Welcome To My Painted Maps

I create abstract topographies of hope on canvas—maps of circular voids, rich with the possibilities of a better tomorrow.

Contemporary abstract, mixed media painter. Sufi, spiritual, textured, south asian, pakistani artwork.

In between harsh borders, absolute binaries, and rigid divides that fracture our world, I see expansive voids teeming with unasked questions, unexplored terrains, and unknown realities.

These voids are swirling with new kinds of models, algorithms, and systems—solutions for problems we haven’t yet faced.

I think of myself as a liminal cartographer—painting as an act of defiance, mapping spaces that are inherently unmappable.

These maps are for me, for you, and for anyone anywhere who is searching for truths that may only be found in the nowhere.

Mapping The Void, One Painting At A Time

Caught In A Bubble
Ancestral Echoes
Mental Float Tank
Photosynthesis
East vs. West
Whirling
Vesuvian Dreams
Textured Tomorrows
The Void & Me
Sifar, Deconstructed
Astrobiological Imprints
Al-Iskandariyya

From A Place That Is Placeless, I Trace That Which Is Traceless

—Rumi, 13th Century Sufi Poet

I call the tantalizing, sensuous, mysterious voids that are at the center of my artistic inquiry—SifarScapes.

Sifar = Zero in the languages of my youth (Urdu, Persian, Arabic, Hindi). Unlike the western concept of zero—my Sifars are an emptiness pregnant with potential, exploding with seeds of new growth. They represents a more fertile nothingness from which all else emerges.

Sufi poets throughout the middle ages tried to capture the feeling of inhabiting a sifar-like space: a charged nothingness that can only be experienced when all ego, identities, ideologies, attachments and allegiances are let go.

Each of my painting is an incomplete attempt to map a SifarScape—where silence and stories can coexist; where that which is conquered and that which is conceded melt into each other; and where we may find new ways to iterate on this great experiment we call humanity.

SifarScapes: Maps of The Void

Let’s Connect

If something in my work speaks to you, please reach out. I welcome notes from curators, collaborators, collectors, or those curious to learn more.