My work for the SVA exhibition

As part of my work for the SVA final project and exhibiton, I wanted to work on the subject of dignity and self respect, and what abuse and sexual harassment means to a victim.

I completed a set of portraits of men who had harassed me sexually in my home city. Some of them are as follows:

I created short comics depicting some of the stories of harassment, for the pain and confusion such behaviour has left me with and how it has shattered my trust in people, completely by such men sexualizing me when I barely even knew them nor gave them any such right over me.

An accordion book I created on the irony of innocence and abuse to convey the message that everytime someone abuses anyone else, they are abusing the beauty of innocence that a face and your past holds, which deserves to be dignified only with beauty -

A short comic story on a personal memory -

A NYC exhibtion at The School of Visual Arts

 

July and August saw me complete a summer residency in illustration at the School of Visual Arts in New York with a set of talented and inspiring fellow artists and illustrators, and the exciting month of study and creation of new work was sealed with a small exhibition at SVA on the 8th of August 2019. Sharing here the invite for the exhibition, if only a little later.