Sakshi Gupta Once Upon A Time This tree is somewhere standing majestically in the Cubbon Park of Bangalore. As I enter this place, I feel each of those twisted and crooked branches reaching out to me. I sit under one of them, suddenly aware of the glaring sun which had been following me until now….
Category: TWI Art Series
TWI Art: On Her Way
By Alka Writes Medium: Digital Image Size: 5000 by 5000 px Artist’s Note: This image is a celebration of the will of survivors everywhere who do whatever it takes, in face of danger and injury, to forge a life for themselves. Alka Writes is a poet, artist and women’s rights advocate. Her work is inspired…
Monsoon Artwork
By Haimonti Dutta Part I of three paintings depicting monsoon shows the advent of rain on parched land in rural Bengal and is motivated by the following lines from the writings of Rabindranath Tagore: গগনে গরজে মেঘ, ঘন বরষা………পরপারে দেখি আঁকাতরুছায়ামসীমাখাগ্রাম খানি মেঘে ঢাকা সোনার তরী | রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর Clouds rumbling in the sky; teeming rain….
TWI Poetry and Art: Son et Lumière
Three poems and paintings by Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad The Eyes Have It I inherited but fragments of her telomeres throwaway splices of her handsome clan but when I’m two and a half Boulevardiers down it’s Mother’s eyes that twinkle back glitching in the powder room mirror and I become briefly beautiful – my midnight irises…
TWI Art : Gaze
Three paintings by Alka Writes Acrylic on canvas16 by 20”Title: I am Says the artist: This painting reveals more about the viewer than the subject, about their expectations of the unsmiling direct feminine gaze. Some see anger, others see defiance, and yet others see triumph. Acrylic on canvas, 24 by 30”Title: Behind Me Says the…
TWI Art: On Closure
New Jersey based Deepa Pisupati made special commission art for The Woman Inc. on Closure. Here is what she has to say about her painting: This painting represents two people who are at the end of their relationship. This relationship could be any – friends, lovers, family. As the reach the end of their relationship,…