Behind doors

Behind Doors 

Etching 

8 page accordion fold book 

8.5cms x11.5cmsx1cm

2013

Midday Shadow

Midday Shadow is a 8 page accordion fold artist book of objects and changing shadows .

The work is a combination of etchings ,lithography and text type written at the bottom .

Half Season

Half Season is  an artist book of 45 pages with an embossed image of a tree with leaves growing and filling the tree by the last page.The pages of the book are loose to flip ,kept in a box to view as an experience of leaves growing or the reverse signifying leaves shedding.

February 2012

February 2012 is an artist book with 28 pages signifying 28 days.

Each page has an embossing of an room with a bricked wall on one side and a tiled floor at the bottom where the carpet is seen moving by the 28th page and the shadow remains .The work was about transition , about shifting homes and about displaced comfort .

FEBUARY 2012 

28 PAGES

ETCHING AND CHINECOLLE 

SINGLE EDITION 

2012

Through

THROUGH
A PORTFOLIO OF 7 CARDS
ETCHING AND GOLD LEAF ON POST CARD
SINGLE EDITION
2012 

The post cards  used were collected from Kutch(gujarat ) in gujarati text from the 1950's , worked on with shadows of objects like a plant container , a chair or a staircase .Each postcard has an individual envelop made of translucent rice paper having an etching of an window on it ,giving a view of the shadow in gold through the window when the post card is placed inside the envelop.

ALBUM

The work Album is an artist book , with a set of 8 Etchings ,bonded together  in an album .

The work attempts to recall memories of people , spaces , experiences and conversations .

Flipping through the pages ,is an experience of re-living  those moments . 

As in the lines of  'Sheshlekha' by Rabindranath Tagore .

'If i can once again 

I shall find that chair 

in whose embrace remains 

the loving message of a distant land '

I walked out , I had a home . Then the old ,then the new .. I also had the wind ,the clouds ,the shadows .

Etching on paper
56 panels .