THE BIRTH OF LANGUAGE
(PRESENCE, ABSENCE, ESSENCE - A TRIPTYCH)
2009

This work was an opening attempt to locate newer meanings to craft practices, especially hand embroidery and its related discourse. Within the format of a triptych, I was trying to break out of the dualities of modern thinking within which craft practices have been often framed. I was negotiating with historic representations from northern renaissance, of portraits of Melancholia and mother’s portrait (Durer). These two images form a textual link to the experiences of ‘absence’ and its corollary: forming new language. Thus, the work is installed to sensitively interact with viewers’perceptions of space in relation to ‘traditional’ languages.