Zarina Hashmi first experimented with printmaking in the 1960s, and has since adopted various printing techniques in her body of work. Over time, she has sophisticated her aesthetic as a printmaker, conveying layers of meaning through images built with an economy of line and form. "..."Rani's Garden," refers to one of the artist's sisters and to the childhood home they shared. The same sister, who now lives in Pakistan, is the subject of a recent series of woodcuts that incorporate the Urdu texts of letters she wrote, but never sent, to Ms. Hashmi, about the aging and death of loved ones. Ms. Hashmi has superimposed the words onto geometric patterns" (Holland Cotter, "Art in Review; Zarina Hashmi", The New York Times, Dec. 2 2005, accessed online)