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For Pocket Diary, Baseera Khan presents two newly developed series of oil paintings, emphasizing the properties of colour through a decelerated image-making process. Inspired by the colour red, the first colour a newborn baby sees, Khan recalls a childhood memory, developing negatives under a red light bulb with their father. Khan creates "Red Paintings", selected from pages of their father's pocketbook-filled with inked images, birth and death dates, events, and desires. In these works, calendars and personal archives transform into emotive colour fields where intensely personal and identity-forming content dissipate into tangible forms, volumes, chroma and material.