“Rendered in a palette of blue, greens and yellows with figures depicting transientexperiences, the work is part of a group of my long term projects which I work on periodically. Everytime I learn something new, I try it on one of my ‘monalisas’. Officially beginning in 2021, the work attempts to study three different things:
How to prime a secondhand cotton fabric into a canvas robust enough to handle a continuous tactile process of working;
Building layered narratives. The material offers a diverse range of storytelling opportunities, and each layer offers multiple entries into the work.
The work studies textures both applied and markmade. It was definitely an exercise in restraint.”