Expressions of a caregiver

I have been in the field for close to three decades now. I joined Kalakshetra when I was 10 to learn dance, but later I took to painting and learnt from Professor Srinivasalu in the same institution. I later learnt sculpting from Kalasagaram Rajagopal. I specialised in portraiture and later bronze.

It stems from my liking for expressing the primordial quality of nature and creation. After my father was diagnosed with Parkinson’s, I became his caregiver. I was away from art and connected with it in the form of workshops I conducted. This exhibition is about expressing the questions and discovery that I made during that phase.

It is a colour expression of the journey. I have used a tree as a way of representing the tree of life, the trident as a form of connectivity as our USB’s have a similar appearance. Water is the connecting link between all the works, and there is an emphasis on space.