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and you thought my hair was black

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Post date December 6, 2020
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oil on canvas. 24 x 20 inches. 2013. ‘and you thought my hair was black’ is a feminist self-exploration of being and identity as multiple, where the borders of the body and the mind of the woman mingle with the world around her to create a subjectivity that is de-territorialised and yet, unique. I try […]

‘tap root’

oil on canvas. 22 x 17 inches. 2012. ‘tap root’ explores journeys and mutations of the unconscious and the conscious. It is impelled by the idea that the opening of a tap, a flow, engenders numerous journeys both within and outside and plays with visibilities and erasures that construct/re-construct a journey for us—holding at its […]

‘when the sky mourned’

‘how to find politically sound love’ (an illustrated excerpt)

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Post date December 6, 2020
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The poem, without the illustration, was first published in Muse India ‘Ecriture Feminine’, vol ed. Semeen Ali. Issue: 69, Sep-Oct, 2016. This is work in progress as I hope to illustrate the whole poem soon. ‘How to Find Politically Sound Love’For my daughter find love that doesn’t sweep you awayyour feetthose you will needfind love […]