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Holi: The Garden of Pleasure, 2007
Mixed media on Canvas, 180 x 116 cm
Holi: The Garden of Pleasure is a sacred and sentimental homage to my childhood memories. The painting is adorned with my mother’s old jewellery, bangles, and bindis, transformed into embellishments that carry traces of care and inheritance. Explosions of colour from Holi powders and splatters of ink cascade across the canvas, merging with intricate henna-drawn patterns to evoke both ritual and play. These materials, reclaimed, salvaged, and reimagined, find new identity and purpose within the work, celebrating the beauty of memory, transformation, and feminine adornment as acts of preservation and renewal.
Holi: The Garden of Pleasure is a sacred and sentimental homage to my childhood memories. The painting is adorned with my mother’s old jewellery, bangles, and bindis, transformed into embellishments that carry traces of care and inheritance. Explosions of colour from Holi powders and splatters of ink cascade across the canvas, merging with intricate henna-drawn patterns to evoke both ritual and play. These materials, reclaimed, salvaged, and reimagined, find new identity and purpose within the work, celebrating the beauty of memory, transformation, and feminine adornment as acts of preservation and renewal.
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