Pakistani artist Imran Qureshi posing on his creation painted on the rooftop of the Metropolitan Museum of Art during a preview of the annual Met's Roof Garden commission in New York city. Qureshi, who uses nearly 8,000 square feet of open-air space as his canvas, depicts his emotional response to violence occurring in Pakistan and across the globe by working areas with blood-like spilled and splattered red acrylic paint into patterns of lush ornamental leaves that evoke the luxuriant walled gardens ubiquitous in miniatures of the Mughal court and also echo the foliage of Central Park surrounding the Roof Garden. Qureshi is the first artist to have created a work that is painted directly onto the roof surface of the museum.