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I did a Potter's wheel which was very new to me. It took a lot of time and patience to get your hands on it, adjust to it and be able to create something... Though what I wanted was not the end product... It ended up being a waste but I learnt a lot from it. I would need more practice and hope to get a basic level good in it... Since, it's my first and second trials only, I think it was okay and I shouldn't be expecting it to be perfect. It will take time to learn this new skill...

I like the feeling of the clay and the texture makes it better while creating stuff and thinking about it...

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Sonder: chairs of chaos

A sneak peak to my first public installation in my first year at university. It has a documented video and the meaning behind this installation is written. It shows the impermanence in our lives, thoughts and surroundings.

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Some random sketches during the lectures and in my free time to help me sort my thoughts.

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These were a few random pencil sketches to show the melancholy of life and the need of help to fix ourselves.

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When I have a lot going on, I find solace in drawing eyes. It is easy and quick too. I have just picked a blue pen and started doodling. To me, eyes convey the inner personality and emotions. In art, it also relates to awareness, observation and the need of clarity.

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My first exhibition titled 'The hindu wedding tales.' Together, I have tried to show the rituals of a Hindu wedding through warli art while experimenting with mud, rice, wood, leaves, clay, flour, screen printing, sketching and 3D modelling.

It shows a forbidden love marriage between the sun and the moon. On the day of the eclipse, they are uniting but the world doesn't want them to be together (as per Hindu beliefs, going outside during the eclipse is a bad omen due to the heavy pulling forces and bad energies in the air). On the day, 2 lovers are celebrating their infinite love, the world is against it (cracks in the mediums used, mud, rice, flour and clay).

The concept of warli art was traditionally done to show celebrations of nature and life. While I have incorporated a story in my work, my intention was to purely show emotions and not harm any belief.

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I learnt screen printing and mixed it with warli art. The process of learning was awesome and I could experiment a lot with it. The following are a few results of the same.

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'Intertwined fate'

Although, there are different meanings of crossed fingers, this live sculpture represents the connected path of people who we meet in our everyday life. I have painted black and white, inspired by ying-yang, which conveys a similar meaning too. This gives a new view to look at things from both the sides, and that they are connected. There is not much difference as the two exist together. It was a new process for me, experimenting with new materials and learning live sculpting with necessary precautions taken.

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The traditional Maharashtrian art of warli using mud, rice, flour and clay on wood and paper. It shows the forbidden love marriage between the sun and moon who cannot be together except on the eclipse. The eclipses are considered as bad in the traditions and everybody is advised to stay inside and not go outside due to the strong natural forces that might imbalance the human hormones. This was to show that the day the lovers unite, the world seems to take it as a bad day, hence, the title of the work "the forbidden marriage."

A warli man made with clay shows the simplistic nature and the mere pleasures of a common man.

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These drawings show human desires and urges towards physical beauty. The mediums used are pencil and pen on paper and etching print-making.

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Some random splashing of colors which helped me calm my mind and regain focus. The different paintings show different emotions and phases of the human and the brain in connection to the universe. The motive was to simply express the chaos going within and out in the world.

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There are so many feelings that remain hidden. Here, I have put my efforts to express the growing emotions in me through these sketches of different angled lips. I have tried to make human lips from different angles and also have portrayed the urges I felt while making these. It helped me to embrace all my thoughts and emotions while being true to myself.

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I have tried to draw few hand gestures. As I drew all these, I felt the need to express the emptiness we feel when we have someone really important gone from our side and we try to hold on as we miss them. Each one of us goes through such feeling of abandonment and emotion of emptiness atleast once, which we pointlessly try to hold on to. We have to learn to let go and move on from such things.

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Our lips speak a lot yet something's remain unspoken... While sketching these, this was my thought throughout and the few different shapes and angles of lips exist. I understood the different techniques in sketching these and learnt about pencil shading. Through these sketches, I was able to convey my view on lips as it is the most appealing part on our faces.

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I experimented with few objects while photographing which made me explore another new form of photography of objects and aesthetically please the viewer. The contrast of black and white monochrome simplifies the picture and emotionally connects the viewer while detaching the image from the colorful real world. It shows that there are the gray days in our life where one would not know the difference between good and bad. As time passes, we learn the difference and clear the confusion and conflicts within us. It is ok to be indefinite at times.

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I tried to draw the different scenarios on my sketch book of a sensual kiss, with a simple one line art to a closer sketch. It helped me put my emotions creatively and made me happy after I saw the result. It conveys the racing intimacy and the calm warmth of a 'kiss.'

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Referring to various artists' sketchbooks online, I was able to do self-learning and create these sketches. The sketches all together convey that during our hard times, we can share our pain with someone to lighten the burden and be able to find solution with a clear and calm mind. In this universe, we all grow together and are here to help each other.