Interstices - Traces in Light, Breath and Air, (Saatchi Gallery, London)
&
In the Garden (Art Houz, Chennai)

Images from two Solo Exhibitions

Installation view

thread and shadow drawings

Photo courtesy: Sunder Ramu

Installation view

thread and shadow drawings

Thyme

thread

23” X 14″

Lily

thread

23” X 14″

Orchid

thread

23” X 14″

Thistle

thread

23” X 14″

Lace-Plant

thread, glass

14″ X 3″

Vitrines

suspended thread drawings, glass

23” X 7″ X 7″

17″ X 7″ X 7″

Imprints

Painting on plaster and wood

Frame size: 7″ X 10″

Red Coral

Painting on plaster and wood

Installation view of white lace drawings

suspended thread and shadow drawing in shallow glass boxes

height : 14″

Water Algae

suspended thread and shadow drawing

11″ X 12″

Photo courtesy: Sunder Ramu

Installation view

thread and shadow drawings

Detail: Installation view

thread and shadow drawings

Magnolia

thread and shadow drawings in a shallow glass box

11″ X 5″

Nasturtium

thread and shadow drawings in a shallow glass box

8″ X 8″

Photo courtesy: Sunder Ramu

Hydrangea

thread and shadow drawings in a shallow glass box

11.75″ X 11.25″

Photo courtesy: Sunder Ramu

Cyclamen and Pod

thread and shadow drawings in shallow glass boxes

Photo courtesy: Sunder Ramu

Cyclamen

thread and shadow drawings in a shallow glass box

11.75″ X 11.25″

Photo courtesy: Sunder Ramu

In the Garden 2

Suspended botanical drawings in white lace, Stop-motion animation, projection

In the Garden 2

Suspended botanical drawings in white lace, Stop-motion animation, projection

In the Garden 2

Detail: Suspended botanical drawings in white lace with projection

In the Garden 2

Detail: Suspended botanical drawings in white lace with projection

In the Garden 2

Detail: Suspended botanical drawings in white lace with projection

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This body of work related to the Garden posits 2 stories

The first is an homage to the experience of two particularly lush, illuminated, breathing, dying and resurrecting gardens which now outlive their creators– one planted by my mother and another by a Swiss Hermit in the Himalayas -truly portals into a dimension of magic and possibility. The stop-motion animations projected on transparent screens and delicate white plants (made of hand formed lace), allow the viewer to walk through a garden of light with fireflies, illuminated plants and unraveling embroideries of nasturtiums and hummingbirds.

The second space offered is of the memory of the garden – a flattening out of experience- a cataloging, archiving and preserving of lace-like words of personal letters which levitate without a ground to attach themselves to, fragile woven-skeletons of pressed flowers, leaves and seeds, floating in glass vitrines, seemingly embroidered on air, fossil like imprints of embroideries on plaster – a repository of the subtle armatures and structures upon which experience plumps itself out.