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Published 11 Jan, 2013 06:00am

Impressions of a foreign land

KARACHI:  Some of us take globetrotting as part of leisure activities; some as adventure to discover land anew; and some take it a tad more seriously and turn it into art.

It is the third group of people who deserve more attention than the preceding two (not that they don’t merit it). This is because no exploration or hobby can reflect life the way art does. The symbolism depicting travails as well as moments of mirth, the colours signifying the ambiance of the place visited and the lines that define the contours of a location have no substitute.

Artist Soraya Sikander should be commended for putting her artworks on display at an exhibition titled ‘In, At and Around’, which opened at the Unicorn Gallery on Thursday, giving her impressions of a foreign land.