‘Home’ series
‘Badlapur Landscape‘, a series of paintings, gives reference to the artist’s home in India. It investigates the feeling of loss because of a lack of memory for a place that is meaningful to the artist. But, at the same time, it is about moving on.
The process of projecting a blurry image of the place onto the black canvas and tracing its shapes resembles the reminiscence of the memory of the place for the artist. The yellow and orange colors in the painting are evocative of Haldi and Kumkum, Indian symbols of the cherishing of good things in life and, therefore, in the painting are representative of the good memories the artist had of her hometown.
The colors are used to create depth in space. The line drawings in the paintings are underlayer of the memory. The sky embodies heavy rain and humidity. The washed-out, faded, atmosphere created with the paint expresses the act of losing memory. The uncontrolled drips indicate impermanent memories.
Project description
I consider ‘Badlapur Landscape‘ as the step which led me to another series of works titled, Fractured. The questions about home, permanence, broken relationships, disorientation, and confusion that I was dealing with from the first move, resulted in the Badlapur Landscape series.
In my paintings, I carefully describe the buildings, but none of the background/ surroundings (trees, streets, and people) are included. The structures of buildings speak to my interest in the permanence of a place. I find a system and consistency in the geometry of the building. The absence of people, trees, ground, and sky in the paintings reflect my feelings of loss of connection with them. The groundless space gives me a sense of disorientation. The wide negative space in the paintings is open to vague. I paint the landscape with intuitions and from the emotions that evoke during that experience.
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