Tazeen Qayyum played with lines and enjoyed drawing while creating amazing artworks that appeal viewers. By having a closer look one finds another world in her work; lines within lines overlapping and connecting each other producing an inventive work while using her imagination with reality. Thus she skilfully focused drawing and painting practices and by combining the two modes she produced interesting artworks displayed in an exhibition titled "Descent" at Canvas Gallery, Karachi.
She made use of her manual dexterity in creating movement with lines by drawing different shapes especially circles and semi-circles. These shapes were made by repetition of words written in a particular shape, a laborious work that was done by the artist. She repeatedly writes a single word or a pair of words in Urdu language.
She also captured her positions while drawing a circle these positions tell viewers her handwork and love for her work. In this way she was able to not only draw but also perform her drawing.
As a miniature artist she used her imaginations and skills to interpret her message of integration and social cohesion in our society. By using language she portrayed desires of people and hope it will help understanding values and humanity.
She fused the letters into one unanimous, unified composite. Having a white background the paintings were devoid of colours and the whole painting became a black and white affair. She built the surface of her work with tiny words. These minute words took the form and create an artwork. From far the work looks like an abstract mass but on a closer look one see language that leaves behind emotions, feelings and sensations that inform identity.
Thus she reconstructed language to create an identity by using her very personal experiences. By reaching the finishing point she has created some truly mesmerizing pieces with her own reflection. Thus she reinvented herself in her work through language. She breaks away from conventional forms of art-making and hence developing her individualistic visual language by means of her work.
Hence it was the desire to experiment and diversify in terms of form, content and even idiom. What also emerged from these works was ideas and creative inquiry that desired to chart pathways in terms of expression.