2005 to 2015 · 10 works
Portraits
A turban, a kettle, a stack of kadhais. The people who carry our days, given a long, unhurried look.
Every face you meet holds a story. Here, there is time to find it.
The play of emotion on a face has always held her. These portraits stay close: elders in turbans, a chai boy between orders, a kadhai seller among his pans, a doodhwala on his round.
Each figure is painted with the things of their work beside them. The face is where you meet them; the rest is theirs to keep. The people who carry our days are given the time the street did not.
Turbans
Red, yellow, a lattice of cloth.
The colour draws you in. The faces keep you there.
Working lives
A kettle, a stack of kadhais, milk cans on a bicycle: each figure is painted with the things of their day.
Together
Red veils, gathered close.
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