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Caged in a Monotone
Charcoal on paper
Caged in a Monotone is another series of drawings, where I have attempted to unravel another aspect of being a woman. It is ambivalent in nature, as it depicts women seated on a chair, attempting to strike a pose. Paradoxically, they are posing for nothing, into the nothingness of life and are unaffected by it! I’ve tried to show often how quiet and indifferent women become when their ways of living are made monotonous by social rules of ‘what a woman should be and should do’. They become the very furniture of my canvas, reproducing their colorless life.
While in the process, I discovered that they were like statues, grounded into their emptiness, and posing the very vacuum in their lives. To me, they seemed to be the opposite of everything pleasant that a woman stands for. They were devoid of beauty and did not possess a sense of fertility, or an element of womanhood anymore!(2008-2009 worked in Mumbai,India)