“My working analogy is based on the Farmer's Life; since I belong to the farming community and have witnessed the struggle of a farmer to support his family. Looking at the farmers issue and struggle in the past decade and the current situation, I realise the insensitivity of the society as well as the mindset that keeps the discriminations active, proving it to be harmful. and a future which might lose the practice.
My practice/journey is like an autobiography, and I find myself responsible to react through my art as an artist to all these never-ending inhibitions. I am born and brought up in the Kumbhoj region of Kolhapur District; where sugarcane, corn and bananas are widely produced.
My background is very much part of my work process and has a great inspiration behind its representation. Coming from a farming family, I prefer the process first and then its result, as in the practice of agriculture: before eating food the grain needs to be sowed and nourished; similarly, I make the paper / surface for the print from the fibres of banana, corn and sugar extract and then create the image on the surface.
My practice is currently based on using papermaking and printmaking process along with research and experimentation with material and content. I use specifically the woodcut medium for expressing the political, social, and environmental or the psychological effects we continuously face as farmers.
I live and practice in Ambernath, India.”