Right from New Year’s day I was on the go. Since this is the holiday season, I had friends visiting from other parts of the world and from India itself. It made for many enjoyable moments, like sketching in Lalbagh with one friend after a very long time. I had forgotten how good it felt.
In the middle of cleaning and tidying up my house for the New Year and for the impending arrival of more friends, I looked at all the waste bits of paper on my desk and in an impulsive moment I made a collage. The ink strokes that made up the cut up bits in the image above where for testing the density of ink for the large ink drawing of Matera below. Nothing is wasted!
In the anxious and unrestful atmosphere in my country, I am glad to be able to ground myself again and again by drawing.