- Fatema Abizar
- The Seen and the Unseen, 2025
- Machine Embroidery and Embossing on Paper
- 8 x 8 in
- Inv: IQ12.2
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Paper and thread meet in this artwork through slow, focused movement. The machine punctures the paper, yet the geometric form that emerges is held together with surprising tenderness.
An underlying embossed pattern is visible only when light glances across it. This quiet emergence reflecting the unseen work of mothers, whose labour often lives in the background of daily life. As the artist moves through the repeated motions of stitching, the process becomes a meditation on fana (a state of complete surrender) and on the beauty of dissolving into a pattern greater than oneself.