Ambreen Butt’s series of prints titled Daughters of the East (2008) employ a muted palette evoking a dusty earth, in addition to formal framing devices and floral patterns, to depict figures of female devotees who were used as human shields by Islamic fundamentalists and killed by government forces in 2007 at the Siege of the Lal Masjid in Islamabad, Pakistan. Within Butt’s prints, five separate fragments come together to form a disjointed story. The violence of the original siege and massacre finds its release here in magical realism, a perfect container for the complex and conflicting ideologies of capitalism and religion, and their destructive powers.