![]() ![]() Ismail Khan, a truck artist in Peshawar, has just added to that meagre array of choices. For a long time, admirers of truck art have had to be content with miniature replicas of trucks or rickshaws, painted in psychedelic hues and motifs drawn from Pakistani folk culture. They are a nuisance to fit into a handy gift-bag to bring home to a loved one. On shelves, they cannot sit but awkwardly, and from walls, they would hang clumsily, if at all. Trouble is, trucks make for huge art pieces and heavy mementos. For truck art enthusiasts and foreign tourists who go wide-eyed at the sight of these moving canvases, these trucks offer a wide-angle view of our political and cultural sensibilities, rendered in portraits of generals, politicians, matinee idols, saints and, of course, the ubiquitous winged-centaur with the mien of an angelic woman - the buraq. Ismail Khan at work in his studio in Dabgari Garden, Peshawarīrightly painted trucks and buses are as familiar a sight to us as the Grand Trunk Road is to your average truck driver who spends his life plying it in such decked-out vehicles.
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