About the Work
Directions to My House chronicles the fascinating life of Zarina Hashmi in her own words and images.
Beginning in pre-Partition India, Zarina describes a traditional Muslim home in the small university town of Aligarh, India, the fragrant, enclosed, garden planted by her mother, Partition through the eyes of a ten-year old girl, coming of age in Paris in the 1960s, the art communities in the various cities she called home, and her current reflections on claiming New York as a home for the last forty years.
Through Zarina’s essays, poems, artworks and personal photographs, readers will be guided through the events and experiences that shaped Zarina’s unique aesthetic.