First Two Nights
Sasha Bashir Ahmad
2004
Oil on Canvas
86cm x 139cm
Acquired on 12 July 2019
Sasha wrote to me, “Just wanted to show you this piece I did many years ago. There is a bit of an interesting story to it. I had this boyfriend and we were together about a year. Then one night my parents came home and told me they saw my then boyfriend with another woman at the same function sitting at table next to them and he was introducing that girl to everyone as if it was his girlfriend. My parents were furious. I was so humiliated. I don’t care if a boyfriend doesn’t want me anymore, but I couldn’t bear the humiliation of my parents having to be the ones to tell me. That boyfriend then called me before I could even digest what my parents were telling me and told me things were over between us and he wanted to break up with me. So for the first two nights after that, I didn’t know what to do with myself after coming home from work cause usually I would meet up with him. So, I went to art shop near my house and bought this canvas and just started painting. No plan. No nothing. Just something to do.Icompleted it in the first two nights after I got humiliatingly dumped andthat’s why I titled it ‘First Two Nights’. Evennow when I look at it I can see the section that I painted on the first night and which sectionI did on the second night. Less than a month after I finished this painting, I went to an art exhibition and met my husband.”
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