Sabba Khan was born and bred in East London. Originally trained as an architect at Central Saint Martins and The University of Westminster, Sabba frames her minimal architectural comics through the lived experience of her working class, second generation immigrant upbringing.
“Motherhood in the Age of Climate Crisis. I have loads of things to say on this topic. I turn 37 in July, and with my nani ama passing away only a few months ago suddenly I have had a wave of new thoughts and feelings on the passing of time, of generational wealth, of how things grow and expand and shift slowly beyond our own life times, how we are observers of only our own meagre blip in the wave of time.
My thoughts jump around from one extreme to the other, I imagine myself with kids and then in a split second later a life of solitude with a cat, a dog and a tortoise. Gosh I ache for that second life. So when ‘With Many Roots’ got in touch with me asking me to capture the conflict women face against the climate crisis and motherhood for their organisation, I wanted to capture all of these emotions.
We spoke a lot about how they want to make space for all these thoughts, encourage dialogue and debate, without judgement or prejudice, a place for female bodies to explore and expand. The artwork captures the three major states: self, world and other.”
