Title: Bodyspeak (translated into English and Hindi by Resting Museum)
Size: Variable
Medium: Projection and vinyl text on floor
Year: 2023
Size: Variable
Medium: Projection and vinyl text on floor
Year: 2023
Title: In order to reconfigure my art practice for the comprehension of the American audience, I had, with some help from a classmate, printed a Bible quote on a difficultly sourced 220gsm hot-pressed “skin-toned” watercolour paper from India as work, but no visitors to my studio recognised the text.
At this great offense, my text rose, took up its bed and walked straight off the difficultly sourced 220gsm hot-pressed “skin-toned” watercolour paper from India, over the accordion-fold work-in-progress on my table, over pen, pencil, eraser, scissor, handbag, paper scraps, notebook and out the window sill, across the parking lot, tennis court and further still, just beyond the imposing Grecian pillars of Sproul Hall, straight into the loudspeaker of the white guy sitting right there at the street corner on the zig-zag patterned brick pavement, preaching endlessly about the Word of God to uninterested passersby.
It was here that my text believed that it had found recognition and its glorious divinely-ordained purpose but the long arduous walk over rough concrete surfaces had sanded down the delicate serif of its Times New Roman font such that it had become an unintelligible sequence of ink blotches that burst forth as garbled crackles from the loudspeaker and made the preaching white guy briefly imagine his speaker was busted by the Devil.
They say walking on natural surfaces like dirt or water is gentler on the joints.
Size: 18 x 49 inches (paintings); 11.2 x 14.5 inches each (stools)
Medium: Gouache, gilt silver, inkjet printed text, and embossment on paper, magnifying glassess, and astroturf on rolling stools.
Year: 2024
At this great offense, my text rose, took up its bed and walked straight off the difficultly sourced 220gsm hot-pressed “skin-toned” watercolour paper from India, over the accordion-fold work-in-progress on my table, over pen, pencil, eraser, scissor, handbag, paper scraps, notebook and out the window sill, across the parking lot, tennis court and further still, just beyond the imposing Grecian pillars of Sproul Hall, straight into the loudspeaker of the white guy sitting right there at the street corner on the zig-zag patterned brick pavement, preaching endlessly about the Word of God to uninterested passersby.
It was here that my text believed that it had found recognition and its glorious divinely-ordained purpose but the long arduous walk over rough concrete surfaces had sanded down the delicate serif of its Times New Roman font such that it had become an unintelligible sequence of ink blotches that burst forth as garbled crackles from the loudspeaker and made the preaching white guy briefly imagine his speaker was busted by the Devil.
They say walking on natural surfaces like dirt or water is gentler on the joints.
Size: 18 x 49 inches (paintings); 11.2 x 14.5 inches each (stools)
Medium: Gouache, gilt silver, inkjet printed text, and embossment on paper, magnifying glassess, and astroturf on rolling stools.
Year: 2024
