She was never uncomfortable working with the perverted rather found success in using lightness and humor to talk about certain things. Asghar would research her parents’ favorite Hindi Films, history lectures on Gérôme, Napoleon’s journey to the East from YouTube for 10-12 hours a day to find inspiration for her work. By exploiting the lack of ownership over how brown people are depicted, she finds that she can manipulate and find influence to create her own ownership of their work.
Through cropping images, and paying attention to the proximity of images in relation to each other the foundation of Asghar’s message to the viewer is set. Asghars’s use of text allows her to communicate along side the images to lead the viewer in the desired direction. Paintings are like portals to emotions, people, and places. Asghar paints the skies as a meditative practice to break away from the woes of the world today. These quiet moments looking at the sky are more meditative to counteract the uncomfortable experiences viewing the current administration and world today.
Asghar stands her ground in saying,