Looking at my last week in London this time round and not ready to communicate too much about it yet. Image is May in my 2018 Calendar. More than half of limited edition print run is now out to new homes in the world or on their way there, thank you. Available from link in bio. $25 AUD / ~$19 US / 16.5 Euro / £14.6 / 1244 INR / 2944 LKR / 2020 PKR etc. BIPOC discount option and those in Berlin PM me if you’d like to pick up one in Neukölln. 10% of online sales to SOS Blak Australia. Image: Speak No? (2017): indian ink marker, watercolour, coloured pencil and synthetic polymer paint on cotton paper, 127 × 96.5 cm
A self-portrait processing ideas of cultural connection on ‘returning to the Motherland’ as a second generation emigrant of India. Investigating her positioning having been born relatively privileged in the diaspora whilst further distanced from language and culture than those raised in the colonised country of origin, TextaQueen reflects on projecting ‘otherness’ onto those sharing tangential legacies yet living distant experiences. Women wearing dupattas from various regions of India float away behind her, an urban-resilient rhesus monkey covers her mouth while it screams a translation of the artist’s frustrated disconnection and a culpable colonial legacy possesses her strained pupils. #textaqueen #2018calendar #speaknoevil #rhesusmonkey #dupattas #theother #theotherwoman #colonialism #connection #disconnection #communication #emigration (at Varanasi, India)