ARTIST STATEMENT
 
Since 2004 I have been examining issues on migration, identity, loss, memory and displacement. While the core concept remains the same, the syntax of how I connect with them, pull them apart and reuse them to create the narratives, have changed over the years and so has changed my choice of media and material. Although my primary field is printmaking

My recent projects examine the two quintessential human rights issues – right to freedom and dignity. For the past few years I have been tracing the absence of these fundamental rights especially related to women. They map displacement and continued violence against young girls and women within the extremely paternalistic authoritarian core of religions in India and other countries. The body of work I am currently working on maps those waves of change that are disrupting the extreme orthodox religious machine, and transforming these societies.

The very process of making my prints--cutting or etching religious symbols, motifs and scripts--symbolize the intransigent traditions on one hand; on the other, cutouts of leaf patterns and their movement, represent the disruption of those traditions, which erase the seemingly unchanging religious order, and create the narrative of new waves of change towards equality.