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Issue 14 – WITNESS
Visual Narrative: Rooftop Dragon Hoards
Pakistani rooftops brim; junk waits, unseen, for rebirth. Attentive eyes find beauty in forgotten forms, a quiet claiming of overlooked spaces.
Visual Narrative
Rooftop Dragon Hoards
An archive of Pakistani household rooftops and what accumulates upon them — discarded objects hidden from view, gathering and biding their time.
Artist Statement
This collection of photos branches from my wider archive of spaces and their intimacies within a South Asian (specifically Pakistani, presently) contextual focus. This part of the archive explores general household rooftops, and what accumulates upon them i.e. junk.
It bears witness to the discarded objects that are meant to be hidden from view, gathering and bidding their time for exceptionally long stretches before they’re used again in some capacity, or discarded completely. Regularly witnessing these artefacts with curiosity and attention against their supposed invisibility hence becomes a small act of everyday resistance and claiming agency.
Most importantly, it is a fond remembrance of the forms lived-in South Asian households can take and their bond in the affinity and consistency of their ways of storage.
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Myrfei
Myrfei (they/he) is a queer/trans multidisciplinary artist and writer based in Karachi, Pakistan. Their practice is based on dreaming and loving. Moreover, their craft concentrates on the interconnectedness of the personal, the communal, and the body, as well as joy and grief. It also focuses on the perception of form, as well as whimsy, semiotics, and archiving.Their work of writing has been published, or is forthcoming, in Writing Women, Kitab Ghar, Queer Unschool South Asia, and elsewhere. His work of visual art has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Kitab Ghar zines, FORGE, and The Blue Orange Zine. Their work has been taken up for group exhibitions at _Cinema 73, Pakistan, 2025; and Far Studios,Hechyeomoyeo 13, Thailand, 2026. They are also the art editor for Lihaaf Zine, and a participant of Queer Unschool South Asia 2026.