Morning from Home Is a Foreign Place
Zarina
American, born India. 1937–2020
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.
Medium
One from a portfolio of thirty-six woodcuts with letterpress additions, mounted on paper
Dimensions
composition: 8 x 6" (20.3 x 15.2 cm); sheet: 16 x 13" (40.7 x 33 cm)
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Credit
Acquired through the generosity of Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis in honor of Edgar Wachenheim III
Accession
1371.2009.13
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