The book takes a deep dive into peeling away the onion layers of human behaviour in a stark and vivid manner. The poems and paintings rely on graphic metaphors to convey a common thread. Introspection coupled with profound, thought-provoking stories, explore and re-engage with deep impressions and stored images snatched from life., creating cross currents as they dissolve into each other. Like yin and yang, at times, they display the connectivity between the human soul and the universe at large, and at others, depict the paucity and dissociation between them. An interplay of narratives throughout the book enables a storyline that depicts the object and the crevices within. Together, they create a unique multilayered sensory experience.
Nandita Chaudhuri is a globally recognized British artist of Indian origin. She studied at The Slade School of Fine Art, going on to do an M.A. in Fine Arts from Camberwell College of Arts, UAL, and a Post Graduate Diploma in Fine Arts from Chelsea College of Arts, UAL, London. She has also done her MA in Marketing from Westminster Business School, London. A multidisciplinary artist, she works across canvas, digital film, installation and print, blurring boundaries between media. She has participated in the Florence Biennale (2009), the Kochi Muziris Biennale (2014), and Pre-Biennale, Venice (May 2011). Her works have been shown at the British Museum; The Royal Academy, London; Saatchi Gallery, London; the China Art Museum, Shanghai; The Czech Baroque Museum Foundation, Prague; Frieze Art Fair; Singapore; Hong Kong and London, besides finding places in the permanent collections of various museums, global hotel chains and private collectors. Nandita works out of her studios in London, Dubai and Mumbai.
“Nandita Chaudhuri writes deeply insightful poems as companions or extensions of her artwork. As an artist, she seems to confront, challenge and collapse conventional borderlines. When the paintings and the poetry are seen side by side, or over each other, they create a potent sensory experience. The poems are about relationships, the human predicament and the nuances of everyday life. They peel away layers of the outer world to offer glimpses of the inner self. Interestingly, the paintings feed off the poems, the brush draws the word into its space. I have enjoyed the dynamics of colour and the poetry which together create the artist’s world.”
Javed Akhtar
Screenwriter, lyricist and poet