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"The Alphabet series began as an impulsive response to my experience of coming home on a yearly visit to Delhi in 2005. Each year I would suffer pangs of homesickness and nostalgia that made my visits to India and the photographs I took during that time extremely crucial to my existence for the rest of year. After having spent many months not speaking any Hinglish, each year I would experience a sudden shock of having to relearn this hybrid language and the nuances that go with it. The classic symptoms of migrant nostalgia were also at play where in my photography I would favor the old over the new, the localized global over completely global - which in my case meant preferring handpainted signs over the digital versions, or the ambassador over a Honda."
Amazing!
ReplyDeleteI love Indian pop art (if I may call it that!)
Had seen Aarti's work on Flickr earlier,
so good to see it here on masalachai!
wow! Loved it.
ReplyDeleteKangan,Indian pop art it is ! I think I tend to pick out art inclined that way .
ReplyDeleteBhumika, Glad you like it :) I can't wait to see more of her work.
I love the colours and can totally identify with her "pangs of homesickness". This is a really nice series and very good for India's pop art in general :)
ReplyDeleteKitschy! Love the 'way to upstairs' ;)
ReplyDeleteVindy : Yeah I loved the colours too , they're very fun.
ReplyDeleteBhavna : LOL ! & 'refrigerated cold water'.I love this country .