Sara Naveed

Ribcage

My work is an attempt to process grief and the loss of my father not through direct confrontation, but using organic matter such as fossils and bones as a stand-in for the human body and emotional affliction. Fossils, bones, and shells are finite, like the human body, like this life. These objects carry an ephemeral quality. The repetition of layering wax and delicate drawings on mulberry paper, encasing these impermanent objects within, is a reflection of the obscurity that loss casts on one’s perception. This work is a doorway into the mourning mind; not an endeavour to escape mourning, but to mould it into something tangible.