LOCKDOWN
I found the most beautiful little niche somewhere in the middle of anxiety and boredom during my lockdown and created little pieces like these whenever inspiration took over.
TITLE: To-Do List
Date: March 2020
Medium: Collage Animation
GROW
These are scribbles from a green place. I've spent the better half of my childhood travelling to the delicious forests of South India and I realise today that those experiences make so much of me.
TITLE: Tendrils Series x 12 pieces
Date: February 2020
Medium: Pigment Ink Pen on Brown Paper
Dimensions: 6 x 8 inches
SKIN
Brown surfaces have always been my style. Sometimes, I get so carried away with words that I find a canvas on skin...
These goddamn stories!
When they come, they come in a hurry;
In a rush to the finish of each sentence.
Alphabet in attendance.
Till you run off the paper and onto your skin.
TITLE: Skin Series
Medium: Ink on Brown Skin
STOLEN
I was mugged in November 2018. Yesyup! Everything was gone, including my precious little sketchbook from the deep corners of my soul.
I had spent those months wandering between Masinagudi and Mulli Forest, up Satyamangalam and down to BR Hills, drawing out all the pain I felt at the loss of a dear friend to a meaningless bike accident in the August of that year.
These images were sent back to me by the people who had received them via Whatsapp during my surrender to the wilderness.
TITLE: Everything in Twos
Medium: White & Black Ink on Brown Paper
SELF-PORTRAITS
I'm generally quite a goofy person, unless I am working (which is when I wear a grown up mask) or unless I am sad. When I am sad, I make these self-portraits of the very saddest I can be. And just like that, I am no longer sad.
TITLE: Mirrors
Medium: Mixed Media
FRAMED
Each of these pieces hang in homes across our little planet. They were all made in reflection of our natural world - one inspired by the Ocean Deep episode of Planet Earth; another inspired by a life-changing experience I had at The Wild Art Residency in Canada; another as a tattoo design...
KASHMIR
In a place riddled with uniformed men, I found animals who walked a straight path and human beings who became the earth.
TITLE: Egg Shells
Medium: Photography
SCAN
This was made during the time that I worked a 9-to-5 job in advertising. I look back at it now as a symbol of my struggles with it and am grateful everyday for the freedoms I live as a self-employed and independent woman.
TITLE: Gulp
Medium: Scanned Image
STOP RINGING
At the very edge of my days as a workoholic, these were taken minutes before I threw my incessantly buzzing cellphone out the window of the rickshaw I was riding in. (Of course, I had the sense to whatsapp these to Adil as proof that I had had enough). I put them up on here as a reminder to never let my frustrations get the better of me.
TITLE: Hello?
Medium: Selfie Portraits
GIG POSTERS
Gig posters sketched out for my dear music monsters in my early years of being a frolicking social creature. I have now become the owl that spooks and the clown that does not slow down.
Medium: Digitized Sketches