STATEMENT

My practice is about the imperfection of daily life, I am inspired by the routine of my environment. It is often a translation of visual shapes, patterns interconnected with human interactions and bonds that I observe in and around me .This  is done through color, movement, biomorphic shapes and figures, and the laying down and scraping away of multiple layers of mixed media.

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The pandemic made me question my life in general,  I saw how most of our  biggest struggle was "Staying home" It started to hit me, across ages , sitting at home enjoying home, living the daily life - is a scare no one wants to admit. During the time I also had to leave India, and settle in a new country, as I moved I missed my roots, and this year saw me incorporating & experimenting in my process with food like- Rice, coffee, tea, mediums like -charcoal, oil sticks, acrylics and agents like surfactants, paste and types of varnish and additives.

 

In the art process,  I started incorporating traditional Indian folk art strokes like Gond lines,  the Warli kind of stick figures , Mughal miniatures and motifs but in asymmetrical abstract way.

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Largely focused on painting and sometimes collage, my practice allows me to dreamily explore an imaginative inner world connected to a routine everyday life. For me  the  single thread in my art across the past 2 years is  "our daily lives" we all live but run away from.