Vision and Wonders opened

“Vision and Wonder” an Exhibition of 50 paintings and drawings a young painter Zarka Shabir was opened here at Tagore hall Srinagar by Naseema lanker, Divisional Commissioner Kashmir in presence of Zaffar Iqbal Khan, Secretary Academy.
Noted artists intellectuals, dignitaries includes M.Y. Teing MLC and former Director General Culture, Shaiqa Mohi,(IMFA) Masood Hussain, M.A. Mehboob, Aftab Ahmad, Shafi Chaman, Iftikar Jaffar, Students of Institute of Music and Fine Arts are also present on the occasion.
Zaraka Shabir, an artist of 16 year old brimming with enthusiasm and confidence. A girl who is both a avid and reader of books and also a firey debater. A girl who is sanitized who the problems effecting the world. A girl who find herself while strumming for guitar and last but not least budding artists who translates who sees around her into kaleidoscope of colours.
Zarka shabir, student of Presentation Convent High School who through her painting gives us a peep in to the world as seen by a Kashmiri child. A child born in a period of conflict Zarkas hopes for a better world where despair and hopelessness are replaced by peace and harmony.
Zarka Shabir’s, fairest exhibition has a ring of pain and pathos about it and it integrates the visual with the sentimental. Kashmir is passing through a period of uncommon turbulence and it is leaving scars both on body and mind. In one of the paintings, Zarka’s records a statement of macabre realty, “Do not tell my father that I have died and then he walked on the road full of blood”. In contemporary Kashmir roles have interchanged. The father has to wail and weep for his son, who represents his and his beautiful home lands future.