Hafsa is investigating the urgency for decolonisation in the present moment by creating reflective, transparent paintings. She is devising a different logic of representation through the material language of painting that reflects the immaterial desire to touch and hold. It is an exploration not just of the object onto which the desire is projected, but of the object that reveals the desire – the hand. The hand is the medium through which we touch, hold, make, and retain—capturing its gesture of touching, feeling, and holding in their relationality. Making one's touch through representation as the point of contact, the blind spot, the lived experience of a sensation. This conceptual play that exists alongside the embodied experience of touch, when represented by the strangeness of how it is painted and gets read as abstraction, is what Hafsa is invested in.