Indian Women Printmakers

Living in the city of New Delhi, using the public transport regularly to move to and fro within the city, presents to me an unique opportunity  of documenting the jumble of urban life and questions the human conditions that we have created through our socio-political and environmental actions. This body of works explored the kaleidoscopic intermixing of different types of cultural and socio-political stratas within the urban environment. Through documenting the visuals of margins of the city, I have tried to  depict the other side of cosmopolitan urban mindscape. Also, the feelings of isolation, fear and disconnect from nature while living in an urban environment, it’s cooped-up existence, it’s daily nonchalance to its unprotected underbelly of living souls has become my focus in the time of lockdown due to pandemic. In clumps and scratches of inky darkness, the city makes up my vision and its identity in my mind.

I have used prints as a way of image making, since I like the flexibility it offers for making variations of the image and also the meditative calmness of the process. I had primarily used zinc plate etchings for my works, but have shifted to woodcut prints for creating larger pieces with simplicity. Juxtaposition of visuals of the city , its crowd, its isolated events make up my image as I try to explore the medium of making prints to its fullest.

I would like to create a discourse about the urban living standards, its impact on environment as well as human psyche, its quirks and randomness as a way for growth and sustainable future without discrimination for the marginal sections of the urban populace.