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Oil, earth pigment, gold leaf and watercolour — river crossings, sacred geography and soil.
Oil on canvas · 2021River narratives and the poetics of crossing — boats as metaphors of transit and memory. A diptych of the Sone River town of Koilwar, its colonial-era bridge and small boats ferrying migrants, brides, traders and ghosts between banks.
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Pigment · Mixed media · 2019A trilogy exploring soil as surface, sediment as memory, and the geology of grief — hand-ground earth pigments from Ganga, Yamuna and Sarasvati riverbeds, with kintsugi gold repairs.
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Acrylic · Ink · 2022Fierce maternal energy — paintings invoking primordial power and collective healing. Kalighat patua traditions meet expressionist force in indigo, blood red and bone white.
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Oil · Gold leaf · 2018-2020The city of light and death — sacred geography rendered through layered abstraction. Gold leaf catches the ghats at dawn; oil glazes gather ash, flowers and prayer.
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Mixed media · 2021The well as portal — vertical journeys into water, darkness, and the subterranean. Made after travel through water-starved Bundelkhand villages, in charcoal, ink and handmade paper.
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Watercolour · Ink · 2014Cloud and soil converge — ancestral chants fused with gestural marks. Watercolour and ink weather events from a rural Bihar residency, in indigo, sepia and pale ochre.
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Mixed media · 2023Where cloud and soil meet — earth as eternal mother. Acrylic, earth pigments, embedded soil and charcoal shift from storm-gray to loam, sky blue to iron red.
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Solo exhibition · 2008-2024Selected works from the New York and New Delhi presentations — Ghatak, Postal Address, Migrant Laborers, 2000 Echoes and Home. Curated by Deepak Talwar.
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