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Words for my works
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I was born in a small town near my native village in Gujarat. Currently, I live in the metropolitan
city Baroda. The large scale visuals of the huge infrastructure of the urbanized city, big buildings,
and flyovers have influenced my work. The conflict of urban visual in comparison to my rural
native reflects and impacts the larger than life size images that I represent. In fact, I get
disheartened with the development of cities due to its unnatural lifestyle, mechanized functioning
leading to destruction of nature.
I prefer to work in many different layers on my paintings. I begin with a large scale of screen
print on canvas before applying paint. On the screen print, I apply spray using a compressor.
After that I use paint on top of it, making some parts completely covered and some with a foggy
effect layer to give a see-through effect of the background image. I paint images over that using
them as symbols. For example, in my work ‘Pakad’ it is represented as pillars symbolizing the
hard work of laborers. Similarly, ‘Time changes everything’ or ‘Good Bad I don’t know’, I
painted an image of a television and represented a donkey in it; or the work ‘Clerk’ represents
the middle class men.
I mix a lot of images together that come from my childhood memories from my village. I belong
to a carpenter family. Vishwakarma is considered th
