You are not owed representation
“…You get from me what I am willing to give. The same applies for everyone. We get from them what they have the capacity to give. …”
Lost letters…
I have these moments. Single, sharp. They fill me up, wrap me tight, remind me that there is something there. Something almost akin to… joy. Something soft, peaceful. YES, THAT’S THE WORD! Peaceful.
University Application Portfolio
The portfolio I had made for my uni application. This portfolio was submitted to a combination of curatorial and art history courses in UK. I had received an offer from all of the courses. Well, apart from one, but that’s a different story.
Personal Statement
The personal statement I had submitted (and got in with) for a combination of BA courses in UK.
The way you intersect in my life
“… And then I learnt that people come and go, we are planets, we orbit around each other, and that’s okay.”
Medical Journals
On 4th of December 2022, while I was crying my eyes out on the bus making my way back to my halls from the Urgent care facility in Kings College London, I had come to the conclusion that I did not trust a medical professional in London. I was distraught enough to make the decision to not let them touch me, even if I were bleeding out to death.
I want you to know why.
(Un)healthy
The idea (and execution) of health is confusing at best, astoundingly ableist at worst.
Art is one Fickle Mistress
“…
Well, I am a small fraction of her, whereas she is the whole of me. She leaves me, I become nothing.
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Things I wish I had the Courage to say to some able bodied people.
“… This is for the former type of able bodied people. And, for my heart. …”
Writing for the Art World - Style and Substance : My Final Assignment
Is this a case of the Curator’s impractical ambition taking over?
Review of the exhibition ‘SHASHWAT MAHARATHI: THE ETERNAL SEEKER’ presented in National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) Bengaluru, India
Art Crime - My Final Assignment
The Head of a Young Girl in Profile to the Left in Renaissance Dress, Leonardo Da Vinci (attributed), c. 1495 - Art Crime Due Diligence Report
Talking about “it”
“… We suffer in isolation that is cause by silence. Pain that is exacerbated by this isolation that is caused by a prison of forced silence. “
Poster Child - Disability edition
It is a slanted scale. Based on which we make a disability (invisible and visible) poster child.
Doctor, Doctor
“… We forget that doctors are as human as the rest of us. They are not immune to internalised prejudices, or anger or fear. They are not inviolable fortresses that hold kindness and generosity in equal measure for all. They are human, as such come with flaws. …”
Do “YOU” Know
“I had people around me suffer or die or suffer the same disease, thus I am more qualified to tell you about your disease, about your body than you are of living it and in it.”
Poster Child - Racism edition
Books, Bookstagram, Racism and Poster child Books & Authors.
Something is Wrong with Me
The very first time I knew that something was wrong with me. The very first time I told that out loud.