Botanical Thread Drawings & Vitrines
Spring 7 (Banana plant)
2018
Thread
45″x68″x3.5″
Detail: Spring 7 (Banana plant)
2018
Thread
45″x68″x3.5″
Synonyms – install 1 details
2022
Thread and dried plant tapestry
8ft X 3.5ft
Synonyms – install 1 details
2022
Thread and dried plant tapestry
8ft X 3.5ft
Synonyms – install 2
2022
Thread and dried plant tapestry
8ft X 3.5ft
In the Garden series. (Abu Dhabi art fair)
2020
white thread drawing hovering 2″ in front of Indigo fabric backdrop
85″ X 37″
In the Garden series. (India art fair)
2020
white thread drawing hovering 2″ in front of Indigo fabric backdrop
85″ X 37″
In the Garden series. (Abu Dhabi art fair)
2020
white thread drawing hovering 2″ in front of Indigo fabric backdrop
85″ X 37″
In the Garden series. (Abu Dhabi art fair)
2020
white thread drawing hovering 2″ in front of Indigo fabric backdrop
85″ X 37″
In the Garden series.
2020
Silk organza and thread
65″ X 40″
Detail: In the Garden series.
2020
Silk organza and thread
65″ X 40″
Soulmates – details/process
2024
Thread and dried plant diptychs which mirror each other
14″X 21″
Soulmates – details/process
2024
Thread and dried plant diptychs which mirror each other
14″X 21″
Soulmates – details/process
2024
Thread and dried plant diptychs which mirror each other
48″X 44″
Soulmates – details/process
2024
Thread and dried plant diptychs which mirror each other
48″X 44″
Soulmates – details/process
2024
Thread and dried plant diptychs which mirror each other
48″X 44″
Soulmates – detail of a pair
Soulmates – process
unfolds the narrative of ‘completion’ in an interplay between two mirrored halves. It is a series of diptychs featuring incomplete plant forms. Each diptych combines real, dried plant fragments with thread embroidery to complete the missing portions. Each half of the diptych mirrors the other exactly, but interchanges the places occupied by plant and thread respectively, completing what is missing in the other. As the real plant in one panel starts to crumble and disappear over time, its counterpart serves as an ethereal registration (in thread) of the plant’s original form, preserving its essence. At no point – is either plant whole and yet each half holds the complete essence- weaving a narrative of wholeness, reflection, symmetry and interconnectedness through botanical fragments and thread.
Frayed Chinoiserie, 2018
Various threads, dyed organza and raw silk
66″ X 44″
Detail: Frayed Chinoiserie, 2018
Various threads, dyed organza and raw silk
66″ X 44″
Spring 6
2019
Double layer thread drawing
54″x68″x4″
Breath Song 10
2016
Embroidery on 3 layers of translucent fabric
60″ X 48″
Detail: Breath Song 10
2016
Embroidery on 3 layers of translucent fabric
60″ X 48″
In the Garden series. (India Art fair and Rehang at Bikaner house)
2020
Silk and thread drawing, hovering 1″ in front of indigo fabric backdrop
30″ X 20″, 27″ X 21″
Specter of images- in memory of the gardener
2018
Thread
120″ X 48″ to 60″ each
Specter of images- in memory of the gardener
2018
Thread
120″ X 48″ to 60″ each
White coral
2021
thread and wire
156″ X 144″
White coral
2021
thread and wire
156″ X 144″
Vitrine 1: Lace Plant and Sweet Williams
2017
Glass, Thread, Wire
20″ X 15″
Vitrine 2: Ferns
2017
Glass, Thread, Wire
27 “X 12”
Photo courtesy:Dheeraj Thakur
Detail: Vitrine 2: Ferns
Glass, Thread, Wire
27 “X 12”
Vitrine 9
2019
Glass, Fabric, Thread,
Wire
24″ X 17″
Vitrine 8
2019
Glass, Fabric, Thread,
Wire
24″ X 17″
Vitrine 7
2019
Glass, Fabric, Thread,
Wire
40″ X 7″
Vitrine 3: water algae
2017
Glass, Fabric, Thread,
Wire
40″ X 7″
Vitrine Display
2017
Glass, Thread, Wire
Photo courtesy:Dheeraj Thakur
Vitrine 5
2017
Glass, Thread, Wire
19″ X 12″
Vitrine 4: Water lettuce
2017
Glass, Thread, Wire
14″ X 10″
Vitrine 6: Pitcher plant
Glass, Thread, Wire
20″ X 14″
Installation view: India Art Fair
2017
Thread drawings displayed as screens in space
Detail: Coral: India Art Fair
2017
Thread Drawings, displayed on pedestals
65″ X 45″
Coral: India Art Fair
2017
Thread Drawings, displayed on pedestals
65″ X 45″
Ferns 1
2017
Thread
48.5″ X 33″
Detail: Ferns 1
Thread
Pitcher Plant (white)
2017
Thread
46″ X 32.5″
Red Coral
2017
Painting on plaster and wood
Frame size: 7″ X 10″
Imprints
2017
Painting on plaster and wood
Frame size: 7″ X 10″
Red Coral
2017
Thread and Wire
frame size: 60″ X 42″
Photo courtesy:Dheeraj Thakur
Detail: Red Coral
Thread and Wire
Blue Coral
2017
Thread and Wire
frame size: 54″ X 52″
Photo courtesy:Dheeraj Thakur
Detail: Blue Coral
Thread and Wire
Water lettuce, Sea Algae
2016
Thread
16″ X 19″ each
Photo courtesy:Dheeraj Thakur
Vitrines
2016
suspended thread drawings, glass
23” X 7″ X 7″
&
17″ X 7″ X 7″
Installation view: In the garden, Arthouz Chennai
2016
thread and shadow drawings
Photo courtesy: Sunder Ramu
2016
thread and shadow drawings in a shallow glass box
11″ X 5″
Pod
2016
thread and shadow drawings in a shallow glass box
11.75″ X 11.25″
Photo courtesy: Sunder Ramu
Hydrangea
2016
thread and shadow drawings in a shallow glass box
11.75″ X 11.25″
Photo courtesy: Sunder Ramu
Water Algae
2016
suspended thread and shadow drawing
11″ X 12″
Photo courtesy: Sunder Ramu
Lace-Plant
2016
thread, glass
14″ X 3″
Thistle
2016
thread
23” X 14″
Orchid
2016
thread
23” X 14″
Lily
2016
thread
23” X 14″
Thyme
2016
thread
23” X 14″
Breath Song series
2017
Embroidery on layers of translucent fabric
Frame size: approx: 24″ X 18″
Detail: Breath Song series
Breath Song series
2017
Embroidery on layers of translucent fabric
Frame size: approx: 24″ X 18″
Breath Song series
2017
Embroidery on layers of translucent fabric
Frame size: approx: 24″ X 18″
Breath Song series
2016
Embroidery on layers of translucent fabric
Frame size: approx: 24″ X 18″
Detail: Breath song series
Untitled
2019
Double layered Thread drawing
approx 62″ X 40″
Untitled
2019
Thread
approx 62″ X 40″
Fraying Nasturtium
2018
Thread and organza
9″ X 12″
Detail: Fraying Nasturtium,
2018
Thread and organza
9″ X 12″
Fraying Dianthus, 2018
Thread
15″ X 15″
Fraying Dianthus, 2018
Thread
15″ X 15″
Dianthus 2
2018
Thread embedded in paper
17″ X 22″
Dianthus 3
2018
Thread and dyed organza
66″ X 44″
Detail: Dianthus 3
2018
Thread and dyed organza
66″ X 44″
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Synonyms
Baudrillard’s essay “Simulacra and Simulation” begins with a reference to a Borges story in which the cartographers push themselves further and further, to make a map of the empire, so scientifically exact- that it finally ends up being the same size as the empire itself. There is no space to store it, so the map has to be laid over the actual territory, point to point, covering the very thing it was meant to represent. People now interact with the symbol instead of the real, confusing the double for the thing itself. Eventually the map ages and crumbles, and its pieces start to merge with the territory, complicating the relationship between the ‘real’ and the symbolic.
“Synonyms” is about this exchange between two things which seem similar in subject matter and form but have different relationships to time, fragility and change. Threads from an ethereal, background web converge and knot to manifest images of plant forms in the overall structure. From time to time, real dried plants appear over their thread-image counterparts, floating on the web with their temporal forms covering their blueprints. In time, these fragile, natural forms will mutate, perhaps crumble, letting go of their temporary forms to leave behind their ethereal registrations on the web.
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Soulmates series
Soulmates unfolds the narrative of ‘completion’ in an interplay between two mirrored halves. It is a series of diptychs featuring incomplete plant forms. Each diptych combines real, dried plant fragments with thread embroidery to complete the missing portions. Each half of the diptych mirrors the other exactly, but interchanges the places occupied by plant and thread respectively, completing what is missing in the other. As the real plant in one panel starts to crumble and disappear over time, its counterpart serves as an ethereal registration (in thread) of the plant’s original form, preserving its essence. At no point – is either plant whole and yet each half holds the complete essence- weaving a narrative of wholeness, reflection, symmetry and interconnectedness through botanical fragments and thread.
unfolds the narrative of ‘completion’ in an interplay between two mirrored halves. It is a series of diptychs featuring incomplete plant forms. Each diptych combines real, dried plant fragments with thread embroidery to complete the missing portions. Each half of the diptych mirrors the other exactly, but interchanges the places occupied by plant and thread respectively, completing what is missing in the other. As the real plant in one panel starts to crumble and disappear over time, its counterpart serves as an ethereal registration (in thread) of the plant’s original form, preserving its essence. At no point – is either plant whole and yet each half holds the complete essence- weaving a narrative of wholeness, reflection, symmetry and interconnectedness through botanical fragments and thread.
Painting/ Drawing/ Sculpture
2019-current:
Architectural Thread Drawings
2015-current:
Botanical Thread Drawings & Vitrines
2008-2010:
Peeling Wall Drawings
2005-2012:
2d: Paintings & Drawings