Untitled Art Fair, Miami 2025

Botanical Allegory emerged from a study of the celebrated picture wall at the Lahore Fort, a monument layered with Parchin kari florals, mosaic surfaces, and centuries of ornamented storytelling. Rather than replicate its motifs, the work distills its sensibility: rhythm, symmetry, and the quiet authority of botanical symbolism embedded in architecture. In this iteration, carved wooden planes replace stone inlay, and thread becomes line, tracing arabesques that hover between drawing and relief. Light activates the surface, casting shadows that shift throughout the day, echoing the dimensional interplay found within the historic façade. First presented in Dallas at Galleri Urbane, the piece later traveled to Miami for Untitled Art Fair, where it was reimagined in a new spatial configuration. Conceived as modular, Botanical Allegory continues to evolve through installation,its composition adapting to architecture while maintaining its internal geometry. Each arrangement offers a renewed dialogue between structure and ornament, permanence and movement. In its passage from Lahore to Dallas to Miami, the work carries more than visual reference; it reflects the migration of craft, memory, and form across borders - continuously reassembled, yet rooted in origin.