Morning from Home Is a Foreign Place

Zarina

1999

A woodcut with letterpress additions in which Zarina pares the image to two stacked color fields bisected by a single calligraphic word, aiming to distill the quiet sense of morning and home into a spare visual aphorism.

At first you see a strict horizontal divide—pale beige above and dense black below—and then a small Urdu/Persian script rests on that seam, its delicate curve transforming the geometric rectangle into a silent horizon.

Zarina’s fusion of minimalist color planes and her native script bridges Western abstraction and diasporic memory, showing how language can operate as a visual and emotional anchor in contemporary printmaking.

Palette

Exhibitions

Recent American Woodcuts and Prints by Marin, Hopper and Weber

1952

American Prints: 1913–1963

1974

Recent Acquisitions: South Asian Painting

1964

Committed to Print

1988