During watching the video, I paid more attention on  Shahzia Sikander’s art. This is because she is good at showing her ideas about art on painting and I like it. When she was a child, she started to paint in school. Most students in her school learned painting on the floor and they have whit sheet with bare-feet. It was good for them to paint because the place is simple and clean. In her painting, she said that people need to respect tradition and be patient. She is also used to draw an edge before painting. That is one of her habits. She was born in India and most Indian women do not do painting or be an artist. In her idea, she think time is the key to show art. She never finishes a painting in 1 year. She will do it for 2 or 3 years.

In her painting, she has many amazing idea about art. Her most important spirituality is freedom to painting. “After finishing a painting, I just realized that I was drawing a painting.” Just like what she said. We can see that her creativity depends on her emotion and feeling at that time. Her most paintings include composition, ballet and stylization. And these are from her memory. For example, horses movement come from her experience and reading. It is amazing and visible memory. Sometimes it is hard to say only can be showed in painting.

However, she said people need to respect tradition and she breaks that. I am not sure how she break tradition in her balance. Sometimes, she indeed showed her creativity about painting. But for me, it is hard to understand her meaning. She did not tell us when can we follow tradition and when can we break it. It is possible that she thought different people have different ideas on tradition and searching spirituality.