Word: buttã
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...uprising in a Northern Alliance jail, Walker may face criminal charges pending the decision of the Bush administration. But it gets worse for poor John: the father of the 20-year old mujaheedin says he wants to give his wayward son a “little kick in the butt?? when he gets back. “He’s been through a horrible ordeal,” says Frank Lindh...
...Butt??s attempt to confront issues of her hybrid cultural identity in her art falls short because the viewer fails to draw something from the experience of looking at her art. The watercolors are small and indistinct, the word bubbles are nearly impossible to read, and the background patterns don’t add substance to most of the pieces. There is little visual differentiation between the paintings and overall, they are not visual stimulating...
Butt begins to falter in her choice of medium and her application of that medium. Resembling ancient Persian manuscripts, Butt??s drawings consist of interlaced pages of semi-transparent dot patterns with a small watercolor over-painting. Additionally, little white circles with words such as “honor,” “doubts” and “passion” are strategically placed on the finished product. The over-paintings are always of either a young turbaned man or a woman, whose face and expression are eerily reminiscent of Frida Kahlo?...
...with the words “passion” and “love,” while the middle contains the words “bad,” “wrong” and “wall.” Especially when one learns that Butt??s husband still lives in Pakistan, it forms an interesting commentary about the difficulty in communicating emotions between men and women, husbands and wives...
...Butt??s work also touches upon her relationship with the world as a place of comfort. Represented by a potted plant in many of her paintings, Butt??s symbol for the world shifts between the figure’s lap, head and shoulders. In one painting, its tendrils wrap around the artist, partially shielding her from falling bubbles containing words such as “doubt” and “suspicion.” In another, they protect a serene woman from the attack of three vicious birds. In a third, the plant rests...