OofP23.Ranjeeta Kumari
‘Afternoon’ by Ranjeeta Kumari, water colour on paper, 14” by 20”, 2016
About the work, Ranjeeta says, ‘I found this piece of cloth, a gamcha, at a workers’ site. I clicked a few pictures of it alongside some other objects and tools. The subtle lines drawn upon it give it the look of an abstract painting indicative of the myriad perspectives regarding the issues faced by the workers. The image became very significant to me as a metaphor of the silence which speaks a million words. The cloth can be viewed as a flag; the cloth is symbolic of the identity of the workers as it is tied by them on the head, the shoulders, the hips, and is used in multiple ways; the cloth is an icon of the existence of the workers and is the red colour of revolution.’