Author: khushboo7

Title: Beyond the Bounds | 2021 Medium: Watercolour on cotton paper Dimensions: 5.8 x 8.3 inch

Watercolours on Paper On my first flight of life from India to the UK, the European land beneath me was off-limits. I flew like a bird, yet unlike them, I couldn’t touch down, not today but any other day, Not only that ground, but the sea, was forbidden to me and to many others like…

The Blue Gold – 1 | 2025 Medium: Indigo pigment dye on cotton and linen cloth pieces Dimensions: 156 x 102 inch Deptford’s (London) historic Royal Docks carry within their soil the layered histories of colonialism, where materials like indigo, spices, and human lives were traded as commodities by the East India Company, which later…

The Epic of Mah MelPaintings on handmade Japanese paper and prints on Japanese paper

Medium: Plant-based pigments on handmade khaadi paper and stitching with cotton threads Dimensions: 45.48 x 32.4 inch When nature takes over, the systems that disturb and deplete natural resources eventually crumble and are digested by nature itself. It’s a hope for a better, greener future but also a warning that nature will engulf everything that…

Medium: Plant-based pigments on handmade khaadi paper and stitching with cotton threads Dimensions: 45.48 x 32.4 inch each An autobiographical piece of my migration journey from Karachi, Pakistan to India.

A set of 80 ceramic containers | 2024 These ceramic containers made with sgraffito and underglaze painting, filled with a tea concoction, are a part of the interactive installation of the project Meh Mal. The story embedded in mark making and symbols on the ceramic surface comes to life with a ritualistic step-by-step ceremony performed…

Hostile Home | 2023 Medium: Hand-felted merino wool Dimensions: 23.4 x 33.1 inches The piece Hostile Home is an oxymoron, where the textural surface of the work reminds of the warmth and safety attached to the word home, and the blue & red wool colours resemble marks of bruises, injuries, and violence that may or…

The Land of the Green Sky | 2023 Medium: Plant dyes, fuller’s earth and archival glue on Khaadi Paper placed on dyed synthetic wool Dimensions: 8.3 x 11.7 inches each This ongoing series is painted from photographs taken of different grounds and floors that are manipulated to mimic the aerial and topographical view of some…

Whispers of the past | 2023 Medium: Hand-felted merino wool and hand-embroidered stitching Dimensions: 6.7 x 3.2 ft This tactile piece traces the global journey of wool, collected from various regions, cleaned and processed primarily in Eastern Asia, and then returned—now blended with wool from other origins—for further refinement. This artwork highlights the complex, intertwined…