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Golden Hour
oil on archival linen
12″ x 9″
2022
The girl in the photograph is crossing a threshold- from childhood to adulthood, from school to university, from her family to an independent life, from her native country to a new, foreign country. This is the most significant transitional stage she has encountered in her young life. She still has one foot in childhood, unable to see all her possibilities and prospects, feeling scared, but she keeps moving forward. And as she goes, she grows, just like Alice in Lewis Carroll’s story. And her horizons expand. The name of this girl is Alice.
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Piya Samant
Jasmine Marigold
oil on linen panel
12”x9”
2021
For centuries, western artists have celebrated women by portraying them as beautiful, powerful, and as nobility. Few parallels exist for South Asian women in art because we see them playing their designed roles in society. They have been captured as doting mothers, loyal wives, goddesses in temples, and homemakers performing chores Seldom does the art world have them as a muse to capture their beauty for who they are independent of their roles. This painting is part of a collection that portrays South Asian women in ephemeral moments of solitude, beauty, and thoughts of self-worth, free from societal burdens.
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