Indian Women Printmakers

Artist's note

This work was about the silent anguish, agony, and misery that we experienced and encountered during the pandemic period.

Cremation grounds were with piles of burning bodies in almost all Cities, innumerable people dying with entire families wiped out at large. Graveyards had no space, floating unclaimed bodies in the river, the river beds were full of dead bodies, and some cities built massive Crematoriums to deal with the number of deaths.

 This Xylography Print work is about the silent anguish, agony, and misery experienced and encountered during the period. The unregistered deaths and unclaimed bodies, deep thought towards the lost soul was a silent protest to make every death count. The self-image performs last right by lit fire to the wood tied to the head, holding the wrapped doll in my hand and on the floor, expanding the thought with overlapped layers and juxtaposed images of the natural landscape, bringing ecological and existential concern.