Author: laimah

  • Decolonizing Afghanistan

    Decolonizing Afghanistan

    So proud of my sister Wazhmah <3 she’s edited such a beautiful book! Available at Duke University Press. Cover art by me.

  • Letters to Sisters: don’t let my hearthate

    Letters to Sisters: don’t let my hearthate

    thinking about ways of seeing

  • Letters to Sisters: beach trip

    Letters to Sisters: beach trip

    a bright memory of a beach trip with my sis <3

  • BIG cherry blossom book

    BIG cherry blossom book

  • cherry blossom

    cherry blossom

    SPRING, woodblock printed with watercolors on natural Kitakata Paper, 12 x 12 inches, 2022, VE: 7 (Variable Edition of 7, each piece is hand printed and unique)

  • Gaze Series

    Gaze Series

    I am happy to have my print included in the next group show at International Print Center New York (IPCNY). Unfinished: New Prints 2022/Winter opens January 20  Juried by Queer. Archive.Work.

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  • erasure book

    erasure book

    Artist’s book, 5 x 6 ½ inches, November 2020 Single section case binding structure, bookcloth for cover is made with dyed and repurposed Roberta Roller Rabbit tunic, pages are made with archival Okawara paper, woodblock prints on endsheets and spread on Kitakata paper Erasure of Ruling Your World by Sakyong Mipham

  • cherry blossom

    cherry blossom

    Woodblock print on Okawara paper, 12 x 12 inches, August 2020, Edition: 5 This woodblock print was made with watercolors, using traditional Japanese Mokuhanga techniques.

  • جنگ • jang

    جنگ • jang

    Artist’s book, 15 x 8 inches (closed), 15 x 23 inches (open), January 2021 Flag book structure, book cloth for cover is made with repurposed embroidered Afghan shirt, pages are made with solar plate etchings of photographs appropriated from The New York Times reporting on the War on Terror