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.