My observations delve into materials and processes that tell a story of self rooted in place, serving as sensory portraits of the inhibited and the bygone. I am a materialist and work with a wide palette of pigments and textiles from around the world. Media used in the work such as organic and inorganic earth pigments, sheer Indian muslin, raw hand woven cotton etc. activates physical and non-physical connections with my immediate and constantly changing relationship with the world.
Process in the works is the message. Often a medium is selected, preferably in its elemental form. Next, it is intimately prepared and rendered. As the medium travels through the composition, it informs of its place and role, through the relationships that it builds. Therefore, an unhurried sense of time is an essential part of the process.Influences of indigenous practices, particularly prehistoric cave paintings and related schools of art play an important role in carving my process and ideology

- Gunjan Chawla Kumar 2025