Sajad Malik, has done his BFA from the College of Arts, Sinagar. He has been working as a cartoonist for The Greater Kashmir (a daily newspaper from Srinagar). He has made a few graphic novels too. Sajad’s art works and his cartoons (done for the daily), draw from the same source in terms of technique, but he makes an honest attempt to create a conceptual segregation, such that no aspect overshadows each other.
Unlike most of us Sajad was not new to Delhi or for that matter to Khoj too. He was a part of a four day workshop at Khoj titled Imagine Peace! Sajad humorously recollects that the talks and the debates at the workshop were quiet contrary to its title. He said, “I was asked “How do you imagine peace?” to which I had no direct answer, for I had never experienced it first hand back home. I can imagine peace only through the stories which my parents narrate to me.” In his sensitive animation, Sajad showed a small boy sitting on a bicycle, hand-dragged by his father, crossing over the Zero Bride in Kashmir. Born in the late 80’s Sajad says that his year of birth fell at a time when Kashmir was already in the grip of unrest. Therefore to him the idea of peace is an image he constructs through nostalgia. Living through this, what lies as a core of his works is not the need to portray conflict, but the life within it.
For the Residency too, Sajad is working on a short animation. His works can be viewed on his website: www.kashmirblackandwhite.com
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