Cocooning
Commissioned to document Heena Pari's solo show at 1Shanti Road, Bangalore. March 2022.
‘Cocooning’, the entire body of work was centred around how she retreated into her kitchen and garden during the pandemic and how those spaces nurtured and nourished her and her family at that time. “I realised I could not dismiss the predicament we were in and if I did not address the situation, I was not being relevant as an artist.” Heena’s work and imagery have largely been influenced by her household, nature, travel and major life situations — all of which were thrown into sharper contrast over the past two years. Different segments of ‘Cocooning’ depict the artist’s fast-changing world. “I kept returning to my art to get some semblance of comfort and I realised it was a way for me to be myself and make sense of what is going on in my head. I process my emotions through patterns, they become a way for me to meditate — I wouldn’t have used those words earlier”, she says.
Read More‘Cocooning’, the entire body of work was centred around how she retreated into her kitchen and garden during the pandemic and how those spaces nurtured and nourished her and her family at that time. “I realised I could not dismiss the predicament we were in and if I did not address the situation, I was not being relevant as an artist.” Heena’s work and imagery have largely been influenced by her household, nature, travel and major life situations — all of which were thrown into sharper contrast over the past two years. Different segments of ‘Cocooning’ depict the artist’s fast-changing world. “I kept returning to my art to get some semblance of comfort and I realised it was a way for me to be myself and make sense of what is going on in my head. I process my emotions through patterns, they become a way for me to meditate — I wouldn’t have used those words earlier”, she says.
