Art comes from within, through expressing your truth and unique perspective – Mahwish Khan
Most of my work is abstract in a sense. Sometimes I explore a feeling about something I have seen. Sometimes something I see invokes a response, but never literally. So my work is an expression of an inner thought and/or feeling. I try to describe my response to a thought, in my own (visual) language. And even I don’t know the verbs and nouns of that language, I just trust my gut and watch what happens.
I find it almost confounding that, having made something that can only vaguely have meaning to me (let alone anyone else) it is shown by a gallerist who believes in what I am doing, and then someone actually buys it. Someone sees in that work something that resonates with them and they want to keep it.
We all see the world in a different way, so of course there are going to be people who respond to the work I produce. But still…
A sculpture that I have made with brazed brass and canvas and found objects, or whatever I have used, continues it’s existence with someone else. They have, in effect, bought one of my thoughts. They have bought a piece of me. Not a representation of something in the real world but an indescribable reaction to a personal thought. Bloody amazing.