Glass is a canvas in light.

Hasna absorbs her surroundings through phenomenological engagements with wind, water, earth and sun, that give her freedom from the conundrums of life. Her work encompasses these spatial encounters, articulating texture, form, light and color. She narratively materializes particular instances through vignettes of painted glass panels and their relationships to one another. The initiation process begins in her studio in Overland Park, KS with sketches and maquette. She explores recurring ideas, dialogues and places of engagement, creating multiple iterations of complex visual connections that challenge dimensionality, depth and complexity. Then these solutions are presented in a symphony of color and light so viewers can internalize, and contemplate the significance and origination.

Hasna is an architect by training. She credits her post-graduate studies from Harvard in landscape architecture for her current work in sculpture; work that translates her observations and study of nature through glass forms encompasses casting, sgrafito glass painting, kiln formed glass, fritography, torchworking etc.

Hasna’s works are narrative, depicting ethereal entities and presenting allegorical inclusions. These interpretations express and share journeys of past and present and are universal stories of love, joy, hope, sorrow and discovery. In her sculptures, she concentrates on creative placemaking through the narrative of both color and light citing the phenomenological responses to layers of filtered light and shadow in the environment to convey her artivism. As an artist and poet, she identifies herself as the raconteur; bringing to light stories that celebrate the extraordinary in the ordinary.

Hasna believes art must step beyond the liminalities of aesthetics and transcend into the realm of community engagement, resolve world issues, have a voice that resonates loud and clear across boundaries and fledge the wings of change.