Category: ART WORK

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…

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