This project was inspired by a blind child, as in what the world might look like in her mind. This is an incomplete work that is in progress. It is a manifestation of an idea that things in nature are quite similar at the basic structure, particularly flower petals and some sea shells. Here the flower petals are calcifying and hardening into a new living being that could possibly exist in some parallel universe. 

Metamorphosis 

This series of figure paintings capture the rich color of Indian skins and the vulnerability and men. 

Untitled 

Images of trees are replaced with that of chicken feet that looks like a tree. In the absence of what was, what will be left - that is the idea. The background and the feet in the distance merges to emphasize on the vastness of the issue related to over consumption of poultry.

Collages of poultry farm surrounds the illusion to address the issues with it such as pollution and poor waste management with has adverse effects on environment and humans

Talons

This is a modern take on the famous Japanese illustration, The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Hokusai. It talks about modern problems and the how water bodies have changed since the original illustration was made in 1831. The canoe is replaced by Oil cargo ship and whale skull. Fish bones hide in the froth of the waves to create an illusion of froth. The painting keeps the signature bold black outline from Hokusai's work and reflects his style, while adding my own essence to the work.

The Great Wave Today 

This piece was inspired by a blind girl I saw in the bus while commuting from my home to art college. her mother would accompany her to school every morning. The girl's eyes were solid grey and looked like pearls. I wondered what the world would look like in her mind. 

So I took the comparison of her eyes with pearls to create a world through a blind girl's eyes. The pearls you find in oysters. The oysters in mussels which look like flower petals hardened. A flower made of mussels and the seed of pearls. Her eyes like the moon and the moon like a distant pearl in the sky...I put the narrative together this way. The butterflies around her also mimics the patterns on the mussel. This is how I find similarities between different things and connect them to create a story. 

I will making sculptures of the mussel flower to add weight to the concept. 

This series is about a girl with 8 heads who finds similarities around her. She finds flowers that look like her - multiple petals/heads attached to one body. She is delighted to find them. The next 2 works takes the story further, capturing the likeness of almond tree in autumn and the tiger's fur in terms of color. The girl catches the attention of the elongated big cat and gifts him a flower, as a token of friendship between weirdos. The story continues in the next drawing with the tiger camouflaged and resting in the almond tree with the flower in his paws. 

Unsual encounters

This work draws a parallel between the structure of bamboo tree and the phalange bones (finger bones). The bones aligned on top of each other are disguised as bamboo grove and surrounded by littered trash. 

This work is created with the intent of addressing the issues with pollution and deforestation and the dangers of it.

There'll be nothing left but bones and trash

This work was inspired by my identity and existential crisis that I went through for the longest time. I shuttled between who I am and who I wanted to be which was out reach and ordinary. The figure is running about, headless, throwing away the mirror, therefore deciding to become who she/he wants to be even though it is unrealistic (signified by the hand that is transforming into wings). 

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