![]() ![]() ![]() The same complex ideas are presented in a visually appealing and much simpler way for everyone to understand,” she says.īeing outspoken through art has its merits and demerits. “Through art, you can talk about anything. ![]() The women’s surfing pad in the picture is a sanitary napkin and the red-coloured sea symbolises blood. In a digital illustration where a woman is shown surfing in the sea, she talks about the harmful effects of using certain sanitary napkins. Through her illustrations, she intends to convey her unlearning and re-learnings and speak about taboo topics. The artist also experiments with digital illustrations and abstract gradients. Work stress, overthinking, depression, healing, self-love, sex, relationships and personal experiences are the major themes of her drawings. They slowly became a medium for me to sit down with my thoughts and experience them.” As advised by my therapist, I also started to take these paintings to my therapy sessions. Then slowly, I switched to articulating my thoughts through my sketches. First, it was mindless scribbles experimenting with oil pastels. Pragathi shares, “During the lockdown, I started putting up my artwork on Instagram. The mother replies, “Can I come with you? I will teach you the game of how to accept love.” In a sketch titled, ‘It is too much,’ Pragathi draws a person sitting alone whose head is scribbled with a lot of colours denoting the noise inside their head and the irony of being alone. The character in the sketch says, “I carry the sadness of all the versions of myself and it weighs a lot.” In the next sketch where a mother and daughter walk hand-in-hand, the daughter asks her mother if she can go out and play. ![]()
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