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Hamra Abbas has for some years been experimenting with marble inlay (Pietra Dura) a decorative art form that involves the use of carefully cut and fitted coloured stones to create intricate images, breaking new ground as she pulls this traditional practice away from its historical function to create a new form of aesthetics. Her works reference Mughal architecture and its traditional use of garden motifs, where idyllic images of landscapes epitomise paradise and perfection, immortality and mortality; an earthly utopia in which humans coexist with nature in perfect harmony; she unearths the …