What Remains

Emaan Pirzada

Year2026

MediumOther

Custom MediumBallpoint pen, coloured pencil and gouache on archival paper

Dimensions 50 × 70 cm

Price£700 GBP

My practice is rooted in topophilia, exploring how we form attachments to the spaces we inhabit. Working across drawing, painting & mixed media, I examine how architecture, light, colour & material hold memory. Trained in Indo-Persian miniature painting, I use layered processes, geometry & shifting perspectives to translate spatial experience.

This work focuses on overlooked traces of human presence within domestic spaces: objects, interiors & scattered forms that accumulate into patterns reflecting everyday rhythms. The composition shifts between interior & landscape, unfolding gradually like familiarity with a place.

The palette draws from dusk & artificial light within built environments, but is intentionally inverted: the sky appears yellow while architecture is rendered in blue. Silver, as an artificial colour, serves as a marker of human presence. Through this interplay of light, colour & mark-making, the work reflects how lived spaces are shaped by memory & time.