"Khan's work draws from a diverse range of cultural sources including literature, history, art, music and religion to create densely layered imagery that is both abstract and figurative and addresses narratives of history, cumulative experience and the metaphysical collapse of time into single moments. Khan’s mindset is more painterly than photographic, he often employs the tools of photomechanical reproduction for create his work. Photographing or scanning from secondary source material sheet music, pages from the Qur’an, reproductions of late Caravaggio paintings, he then builds up the layers of scans digitally, which allows him to meticulously control minute variances in contrast, brightness and opacity." Khan's work is interesting because it reminds me of a dark room print with multiple exposures. Some of them. I enjoy that he mixes many things to create his finished pieces. I enjoy his musical series because it looks like x-rays of the objects and they also remind me of photograms. Also, most of his work has this creepy feeling that it gives off because of the colors and the overlaying of the images.
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