And this is the lady and her pond

(2015-2018)

3-channel projection, 6-channel sound, found objects of varying dimensions, 15 min

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This projection installation comprising still and moving images and sound, is based on the recollections of 4 twenty-somethings in Karachi, Pakistan. One talks about her grandparents' home and life pre-Partition in Lucknow, India. One talks about his own recent migration from Karachi to Toronto, Canada, and back. One describes her 'family home' in Goa, India, and another talks about her grandmother's journey from Burma to India during WWII. The different stories, based on a fantasy, lived trauma, an imposed identity based on one's heritage and family lore, are layered over and under each other, resonating through the repetition, pairing and jxtapositioning of words, sounds, and images. As still and moving images shift on the three projections present, voices emanate softly from speakers in the space, guiding audience through the space, further shifting one's view of the image as one moves. The narratives, visually and orally disembodied and fractured, bring to the fore negotiations one makes with oneself and with families and communities as one moves, as one recalls a received migration, and the influences these trajectories have on lives. The installation also asks how audiences can negotiate the document, present as image and voice, in relation to their subjectivities and perspectives.

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Robert Norman "Bob" Ross(October 29, 1942 – July 4, 1995) was an American painter, art instructor, and television host.[1] He is best known as the creator and host of The Joy of Painting, a television program that appeared on PBS in the United States, Canada and Europe.

Hasui Kawase(May 18, 1883 – November 7, 1957) was a prominent Japanese painter of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and one of the chief printmakers in the shin-hanga ("new prints") movement.

Kawase worked almost exclusively on landscape and townscape prints based on sketches he made in Tokyo and during travels around Japan. However, his prints are not merely meishō (famous places) prints that are typical of earlier ukiyo-e masters such as Hiroshige and Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849). Kawase's prints feature locales that are tranquil and obscure in urbanizing Japan.

In 1923 there was a great earthquake in Japan that destroyed most of his artwork.

Alphonse Legros(8 May 1837 – 8 December 1911), painter, etcher and sculptor was born in Dijon.

As he had casually picked up the art of etching by watching a comrade in Paris working at a commercial engraving, so he began the making of medals after a walk in the British Museum, studying the masterpieces of Pisanello, and a visit to the Cabinet des Médailles in Paris. Legros, considered the traditional journey to Italy a very important part of artistic training, and in order that his students should have the benefit of such study he devoted a part of his salary to augment the income available for a travelling studentship. His later works, after he resigned his professorship in 1892, were more in the free and ardent manner of his early days—imaginative landscapes, castles in Spain, and farms in Burgundy, etchings like the series of "The Triumph of Death," and the sculptured fountains for the gardens of the Duke of Portland at Welbeck Abbey.