Author: khushboo7

Rafu 1 and 2 | 2022 Medium: watercolours, ink, and stitching on handmade khadi paper Dimensions: 13 x 10.65 inch Note: The work is an attempt to investigate the repair, reconstruction, and mending. And the building of a new onto an old.

Title: Summers of 2000s | 2022  Medium: plant-based dyes, ink, pencil colours, khadia mitti (clay) and paper cut on rice paper glued on handmade khadi paper  Dimensions: 7.2 x 2.8 ft  Summers spent at my maternal grandparents’ home are the most cherished memories of my life. The jaali pattern here is taken from the curtains hung…

Untitled | 2022 Medium: Plant-based dyes and paper pulp Dimensions: 2.8 x 1.1 x 0.8 ft and 1.9 x 1.1 x 1.1 ft Note: The installation is a story of the bags-like forms which at first glance seem to resemble the excavated objects, a closer look reveals the map-like marks on the surface to indicate…

Threads of History | 2023 Medium: Dissolvable embroidery Dimensions: 8.3 x 11.7 inches This cartographical collage is a counter-mapping practice that juxtaposes precolonial, colonial, postcolonial, and contemporary maps of the old walled city of Ahmedabad, India. Created using archival maps from the British Library from India Office’s Survey of India collection, the artwork reveals shifting…

Ruins of an Abandoned land | 2020 Medium: Plant-based dyes, ink and gouache on handmade khadi paper Dimensions: 15.5 x 32.5 inch

Walking on the Broken Roads | 2020 Medium: Plant-based dyes on handmade khadi paper Dimensions: 19.6 x 44.5 inch

The retelling of the story | 2020 Medium: Plant-based dyes, ink and gouache on handmade khadi paper Dimensions: 21 x 44 inch

Uninhabited | 2019 – 2020 Medium: Watercolors on handmade khadi paper Dimensions: 9.5 x 35 inch

The Call of the birds | 2019 – 2020 Medium: Watercolors on handmade khadi paper Dimensions: 9.5 x 35 inch

A neighbourhood in the cloud | 2019 Medium: Ink on paper cut handmade khadi paper Dimensions: 15 x 32.5 inch