I
like black and white. The starkness of markers and ink, the film noir
esque moodiness of soft pastel, charcoal and oil bar. Of late, though,
I have been playing with colour, integrating found images and digital
manipulation into my work. My advisor Gerald Bergstein's advice this
semester: Don't be afraid to make a bad picture. Or a big picture. To
celebrate the latter; newly-fearless yours truly has rendered Kari
featuring in Corazon,
wall-size. This piece marks Kari's
chequered journey: from the pages of a papad-pickle stained accounts
ledger in Mumbai, to art gallery respectability in Boston. Fortuna
spins upward.
The
visual style for the graphic novel based on the epic is still finding
its feet. The sketches on the left are from my MFA thesis show, Draupadi:
people on the streets of Hastinapur, a leering Duryodhan, a game of
dice.
About
the other writing. 'July
1999' has made me want to stop and take a deep breath for
now. But there is a travelog that voices itself now and then like
a little mouse, and soon it will demand to be written.
Sequential
Art and the Written Word
Images
from the MFA Thesis show
Images
from 'Kari: Suburban Superhero'
Excerpts
from my novel: 'July, 1999'
Journal:
The Wandering Logbook
