‘Zarina's second major body of work, silkscreens, cemented what were becoming hallmarks of her aesthetic: a restrained color palette, minimalist abstract compositions, and an abundance of negative space. Her spare sensibility has often been credited to Western minimalism and while the artist cites Constantin Brâncuși and Kazimir Malevich as influences on her relief prints and American artist Carl Andre on her silkscreens, she always maintained that she encountered minimalism at the ruins of the imperial complex of Fatehpur Sikri - that the geometry, symmetry, open space, and restraint of Mughal architecture trained her eye before any Western artists.’ (Excerpt from S. Burney, Playing with the Medium: Zarina’s Evolution as an Artist and Printmaker)
