Natasha Narain

Natasha Narain (India and Australia)

Kantha Drawing for Ma, 2019

collage, ink, pastel, acrylic, unstretched canvas

35 x 70 inches

Medical imagery of the inside of bodies combines with botanical, symbolic, and free-form drawings to form patterns in my works. I believe anatomical imagery has the potency to create connections by forming identifiable and relatable imagery. However, while drawings of muscles, cells, bones, tissues, organs, and blood may suggest memories, traumas and emotions, are they simultaneously freed of the color of the skin that enfolds them and of racial and ethnic signifiers?