‘Beauty is in imperfection’
KARACHI: An exhibition of artworks made by intellectually challenged children to coincide with the United Nations International Day for Persons with Disabilities (Dec 3) opened at the Grandeur Art Gallery on Wednesday.
According to Saima Haq, principal of Special Children’s Educational Institute, the exhibition titled Art & Function has on display an interesting collection of furnishings upholstered with hand-painted fabric by students with special needs.
There is a decent variety of objects (chairs, trunks, couches) on which the children have made nice little designs. Helped by their teachers, they followed step by step instructions given to them to paint on the given fabric and other materials. For example, they have used crayons to make flowers on chairs. The marked feature of the floral images is that they exude innocence which one can associate only with children.