Cotton pulp · 2014Ant-mein — In the End
The inner room — pulp folded like breath held inside mud walls, carrying the quiet of the childhood home.
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Ghar Dwaar — About This Home
2014 · cotton pulp, acrylic and watercolour — silence, childhood farms, monsoon and chulha
Shambhavi's works are evocative of silence — the silence distilled through her spirit, witnessing the dark sky canopy of vast farms and river from childhood. The inky blackness that engulfed huts and hamlets, the rapier sliver of monsoon lightning, moon gingerly showing its face, long shadows from chulha flames, dawn bustle of the farmer's family, weak dhibri light, the farmer alone in her vast field — ephemeral, incandescent visions that touched her art.
About This Home is an ongoing engagement with cotton paper pulp — formed by hand, coloured through invigorating hues, evoking simple hinterland life far from urban consumption. Her work is silent; the friction of consumption on nature is not. Made after the STPI summer with master papermaker Richard Hungerford, where fingers touched buttery roughness of fresh pulp like two souls meeting. In Delhi with cotton pulp ground, textured, formed by hand — like the mud hut she comes out of, her Home and roots.
Walking in Buddha's footsteps, her art invokes clarity — stepping into lightness, claiming the elemental. This body of work is an invocation to frugality, containment and quiet. Pulp Friction. 2014 · Cotton Paper Pulp, Acrylic, Watercolour · Various 18x45 to 27x35in · Inspired by STPI Residency, Singapore.
Cotton pulp · 2014
Cotton pulp · 2014Aadhia-puraa-ek — Half Full 01
The half and the whole — a frugal measure of grain, wall and prayer, holding less so that it keeps more.
Cotton pulp · 2014Aadhia-puraa-do — Half Full 02
Second measure of frugality — containment as abundance in fibre and pigment.
Cotton pulp · 2014Saaf-saada-ek — Clear Clarity 01
Clarity claimed in pulp — stepping into lightness, elemental and spare.
Cotton pulp · 2014Garam-chaar — Hot 04
Chulha heat held in fibre — flame shadows and summer grain.
Cotton pulp · 2014Grishma-ritu-ek — Midsummer Daydream 01
Early morning bustle through each season — dawn activities pressed into pulp.
Cotton pulp · 2014Paanch-devi — Five Goddesses
Five guardians of the threshold — household goddesses in pigment and pulp, watching over door, hearth and grain.
Cotton pulp · 2014Window
A house opening onto fields — monsoon light and farm air pressed into fibre, the outside kept gently within.