2008
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Floating in Hindustan
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Floating in Hindustan. Detail. Watercolour on wasli. 300cmx25cm (entire). 
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Floating in Hindustan was the first scroll I made. I had the wasli for this scroll made at the National College of Art in Lahore. In Baroda I had seen scroll paintings made by artists from Bengal . This non-paginated format appealed to me as way to conduct practical experiments in miniature painting, and it was light and portable. Over time the scroll became more than a painting exercise, but a place in which to make notes, and keep a diary of sorts. Life and events blended with painting and with my crossings between India, Pakistan and Australia, and miniature offered a way of meditating upon cataclysmic evens such as attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York that year.
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