Held

Acrylic, pastels on manjarpatta

48 x 56 inches

2025

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Displayed at Akara Contemporary, Mumbai as part of the group show 'Room For Seeing' in 2025.

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A rhythmic interaction between movement and pause, where confident cobalt blue strokes meet the softer, skin-toned hues. The layered brushstrokes unfold like journal entries or maps of emotional landscapes, each mark becoming a container for something I've felt but could never say. 

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As I built the painting colour by colour, I was drawn to how each layer could hold its own space while gently overlapping and interacting with the other. This quite dialogue between the two tones mirrors how we sometimes carry beauty and pain in equal measure. Not in coflict, but in coexistence.

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The painting is made on manjarpatta, an untreated cotton fabric. Its raw, textured surface responds to the pigment in its own way, introducing a kind of material honesty to the work. There's something tender and a little ironic about this quiet symphony: how different emotions, like different surfaces and colours, can meet, blur and still remain intact.