This series talks about how the gaze affects fem-bodies and how it ends up making thier bodies feel alien to themselves , when you think about land , it shares the same separateness in a sense of ownership, in this work the fem-bodies and land, even after feeling alienated try to reach out to each other and merge , dissolve, in an attempt to resist these outersystems together.
Bodies of Soil
Bodies inside the ground
12” x 10”
Red Soil, Madder, Logwood and ferrous sulphate on
alum mordanted on reclaimed cotton canvas, hand painted with bamboo stick.
Body as a ground
20” x 10”
Red soil, Logwood and ferrous sulphate , myrobalan mordanted reclaimed cotton, handpainted with bamboo stick.
Spine of the ground
23” x 6”
Red soil, logwood and ferrous sulphate with myrobalan mordanted reclaimed cotton, handpainted with bamboo stick.
Layers of body as land
18” x 11”
Red soil, Madder, logwood and ferrous sulphate with myrobalan mordanted reclaimed cotton, handpainted with bamboo stick.