Indian Women Printmakers

This work represents an analogy between the metamorphosis of nature and human. Scientific research has shown that plants are intelligent entities, and they are capable of interaction. I took visual reference from my surroundings, like floras which grown wild on the road side. And required less attention and is care to sustain (mentally repressed flora) in dried forms or which are going trough weathering. I mostly use flora or an organic body as a visual element in my image because I have been close to plants from my childhood, since then, I have been nurturing plants and collecting natural objects such as dried flowers, fruits, seeds, branches and leaves. This habit is reflected in my practice. Looking at these gives me an understanding of the value of life, how an organic body has gone through a transformation that endows characters to it. There is a story of struggle that is visible, as if every flora and fauna has to withstand that vin the course of its journey. I believe human beings are no different. As living creature, we have to fight for our existence. Our physical manifestation changes what we communicate or convey. In this process of evolution, sometimes we feel lost. This feeling or uncertainties or unreality is often in my image in the form of empty back grounds, in a juxtaposition of dried flora with a sense of distortion as a metaphor of an entity. I feel dried flower shear reminiscent of memories, suppressed emotional expression and treasured moments gone by that arouse nostalgia and melancholy which accords the image a surreal atmosphere.