Secret side of Feica

Feica R-a (Rafiq Ahmad), needs no formal introduction.

I have been his fan for last 20 years through his contributions to my favorite newspaper, 'DAWN'

Recently, thanks to social media, we have become friends as well and it was my honor to know that such an accomplished artist of international stature, had a good opinion about my work as well.

Despite being known as a cartoonist (or perhaps because of this) very few people know him as a wonderful painter as well. His pictures reflects that secret side of him. A pleasant surprise for his followers.

A study of his work depicts him as an extremely sensitive person, the one endowed with a keen sense of observation, depth of analysis, extremely refined sense of humor and a biting sarcasm.

His art reveals the tragedy of being a sensitive person in this society who feels an inner anguish on the rapid degeneration of social fabric and trials and tribulations faced by common people at a loss to make any sense of their surroundings.

The sensitive, intellectual person shown in his cartoons is probably Feica himself who in the words of Ghalib appears as

 

بنا کے فقیروں کا ہم بھیس غالب

تماشہ اہلِ کرم دیکھتے ہیں