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Indopak
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Making Indopak. Field documentation 2014                                                                                                                                                                                    Indopak scroll III in display box

               

Indopak scroll III Australindopak Archive began just after I crossed the Indopak border into Pakistan in December 2013. My idea had been to contain both India and Pakistan journeys on the same scroll, but the paper ran out, just as I crossed the border. I went with the 'coincidence' and prepared a new scroll in Lahore, using paper saved from a previous visit, by a fantastic friend.

In Lahore I reconnected with a family of Pakhiwas quilt makers whose story became a presence throughout the scroll.  I travelled to Khyber Paktunistan in north west Pakistan where I made paintings about a very different community whose presence in that area is so old as to be mentioned in the Rig Veda.     Six months later I returned overland to India, the ten metre scroll almost full. Due to leave for Australia, at Delhi immigration an issue with my visa kept me in India for two more months. During this time painting became a lifeline for managing visa-anxiety amidst other events and encounters. 


*An incredible number people who supported me as I made the Australindopak Archive are acknowledged in my thesis and book "Peripatetic Painting".
Here also, I thank those beautiful friends who took me in.

Click an image above to view Indopak scroll III Australindopak Archive
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