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Passionate about using her art to address underlying issues, Waheeda’s latest works from her collection,

Reformation addresses the various discriminatory issues many people face in current society.

 

She uses different colours to portray the different segregated groups of people, groups that do not fit well into the stereotypical frames that are usually incorrectly attributed to them. Her artwork, composed mainly of the colours encompassed by ill-fitting frames, is complete when the final perfect-sized frame is painted—a frame that encapsulates all the previously isolated colours in a beautiful blend of swirling hues. This fitted frame and its encased colours represent the harmonious society we are working towards, a utopia where discrimination does not exist and the world is more beautiful than it was before when divided.

 

This whole collection is a play on the word reformation.

Waheeda re-forms the frames to create an optimum frame that fits all the colours. This re-formation of the frames indicates the need for a literal reformation in the way people in society tend to perceive others differently from themselves.

 

Instead of differentiating, isolating and incorrectly stereotyping others based on their dissimilarities, it is imperative that every group views and accepts one another with the same open mind as they would their own.

 

Different groups of people at the end of the day are all still just humans, just as different colours at the end of the day are all still just pigments.

And just as different colours come together to create a more beautiful picture, different people come together to create a more beautiful society.