One More Dream by Mustabshirah Malik
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Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 24 x 30 in
Year: 2026
Price: $1400.00 USD
Status: available
Graduation is often imagined as a moment of arrival a culmination of years of effort, anticipation, and hope. One More Dream reflects on that fleeting sense of completion while looking beyond it, toward the uncertainty and possibility that follow. The moment we finally reach something we once dreamed of, another horizon begins to take shape. What feels like an ending becomes a threshold, a passage from one chapter of life into another, where new aspirations, questions, and responsibilities emerge. The work explores this quiet tension between achievement and becoming. It considers how our understanding of happiness changes as we move forward how a long-awaited dream can be both a celebration of what has been accomplished and an invitation to imagine what comes next. One More Dream is ultimately a reflection on transition: the recognition that no single achievement defines the entirety of a life. There is always another dream beyond the one we have just reached, and another journey waiting to unfold.
Why collect this work?
A reaching cat, airborne mortarboard, and scattering pages turn graduation from a fixed achievement into a precarious interval, with aspiration pictured as something already moving beyond the figure’s grasp.
- Malik’s statement identifies the cat as a symbolic stand-in for the human self across stages of life. Here, its raised paw makes that broader idea specific to ambition after formal education.
- In the photograph, the cat occupies a platform of written pages while loose sheets descend into clouds. Its upward gaze links the cap above to the papers below, suspending the scene between accomplishment and uncertainty.
- The documented oil-on-canvas medium supports gradual transitions from saturated blue to pale cloud forms, while sharper contours distinguish the cat and cap. That contrast gives the symbolic actors greater visual weight than their shifting setting.
- Made in 2026 and titled One More Dream, the painting is a useful point of encounter for how contemporary figurative symbolism recasts graduation: not as closure, but as a threshold where credentials, hopes, and responsibilities disperse in different directions.
About the Artist
Mustabshirah Malik
Mustabshirah Malik is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: painting. Based in Karachi, PK.
Nationality: Pakistani
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