Architectural Thread Drawings
Spiral Staircase: Aicon Contemporary, New York
2021
Suspended Thread Drawing
144″ x 60″
Ikat Staircase for Patta Bandha
National museum of Craft, Delhi, 2024
I have long been fascinated and terrified by the technique of ikat which involves pre-calculating an image and tie-dyeing portions of the yarn, such that when it runs from right to left and left to right, the image slowly builds up by step by step – a process echoed in the subject matter of the staircase.
Ikat Staircase for Patta Bandha
National museum of Craft, Delhi, 2024
I have long been fascinated and terrified by the technique of ikat which involves pre-calculating an image and tie-dyeing portions of the yarn, such that when it runs from right to left and left to right, the image slowly builds up by step by step – a process echoed in the subject matter of the staircase.
Folded Stairs (diptych)
2022
Thread Drawing
31″ X 73″
46″X 73″
Absent Architecture (Spiral Stairs)
2023
Thread Drawing
27″ X 48″
Absent Architecture (Stairs)
2023
Thread Drawing
33″ X 52″
October Calender
2021
thread and wire
approx: 23″ X 25″
Untitled (Brick-Wall diptych)
2022
Thread and shadow drawing
27″ X 48″ each
Detail from Untitled (Brick-Wall diptych)
2022
Thread and shadow drawing
27″ X 48″ each
Pichla Darwaza
2023
Thread and Shadow drawing
8ft X 8 ft
Untitled (33 Link Road layered drawing)
2023
Layered thread and fabric
8ft X 4ft
Detail: Untitled (33 Link Road layered drawing)
2023
Layered thread and fabric
8ft X 4ft
Untitled (Fragmented Staircase)
2023
Thread
91″ X 47″
84″ X 33″
Untitled (Turning Staircase)
2023
Threads and silk organza
75″ X 47″
Spiral Staircase
2022
Thread and shadow drawing
74″ X46″
Spiral staircase 1 (red)
2021
Thread drawing sandwiched between layers of translucent fabric
71″x55″
Spiral staircase 2 (red)
2021
Thread drawing sandwiched between layers of translucent fabric
71″x55″
Detail: Spiral Staircase (red)
Fragmented gate: From the series 33 Link Road
2020
Thread
204.5″ x 85.75″
(86″x48″x2.75″, 86″x25″x2.75″,86″x39.5″x2.75″, 86″x39.5″x2.75″x86″x35.5″x2.75″x86″x37″x2.75″)
Detail: Fragmented gate: From the series 33 Link Road
2020
Thread
Staircase 2, Aicon Contemporary New York
2021
Thread drawing sandwiched between layers of translucent fabric
40″ x 30″
Staircase 1, Aicon Contemporary New York
2021
Thread drawing sandwiched between layers of translucent fabric
40″ x 30″
Gate: From the series 33 Link Road
2018
Thread drawing embedded in and extending out of Cotton Rag Paper
190″ X 79″
Detail: Gate: From the series 33 Link Road
2018
Thread drawing embedded in and extending out of Cotton Rag Paper
190″ X 79″
Folded Window
2018
Thread drawing embedded in Abaca paper pulp
50.50″ x 37.75″
Detail: Folded Window
2018
Thread drawing embedded in Abaca paper
50.50″ x 37.75″
Indigo Veda doors
2018
Thread drawing embedded in Abaca paper pulp
83.5″ X 35.5″ each
Afterlife: brick stacks, QAGOMA Australia
2021
Thread, fabric and wire
168″ X 60″
Afterlife: Door with embroidered shadow, QAGOMA Australia
2021
Thread and steel frame
white door: 83” X 42”
indigo shadow: 108″ X 42″
Afterlife: Fraying Veda doors
2021
Thread
108″ X 164″
Afterlife: Folded staircase
2021
Thread
120″ X 168″
Untitled
2022
Thread and shadow drawing
71″ X 52″
Spiral staircase
2021
Thread
144″ X 66″
Doorway
2021
Thread and Organza
Approx: 33″ X 45″
Windows
2021
Thread and Organza
33″ X 41″
Thread drawings from the 33 Link Road Series
2020
Thread drawing installed 1″ in front of Indigo backdrop
16″ X 20″
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These architectural thread-drawings often collapse, fold, unravel back into thread – creating a tension between their identification with the rigid, architectural forms they reference and the soft, collapsible material they come from.
Painting/ Drawing/ Sculpture
2019-current:
Architectural Thread Drawings
2015-current:
Botanical Thread Drawings & Vitrines
2008-2010:
Peeling Wall Drawings
2005-2012:
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