Falguni Joshi.

कागज़ · a folio of plates · 2019 to 2026

सूत्रधार

the one who holds the thread

One cotton thread runs through everything I make. It begins in this photograph, in my own hands. Follow it down.

Self portrait: a red cotton thread traces down the artist's face, around her lips, and trails off below her jaw
the weaver · self portraitfrom the styleweb series

"एक छोटे से चारकोल स्टिक का उपयोग करके मेरे दिल को कागज़ पर खुरच दिया।"

With a small stick of charcoal, I scratched my heart onto paper.

the chapters, stitched in the order they were lived

The artist seated beneath her charcoal wall mural of hair fanning into a crown of screaming faces

chapter II

Voices In My Head

उसके भीतर एक जगह मौजूद है, एक अँधेरी, अस्पष्ट, धुंधली जगह…

There is a place within her, a dark, hazy space… the unseen and the unwanted.

Open the chapter

Charcoal on black paper: a woman's face emerging from complete darkness, eyes lit

chapter V · the paper darkens here

The Dark Room

यही एहसास शून्यता है, यही खालीपन है जो सबसे पूरा है।

This is the feeling of shoonyata: the emptiness that is most complete.

Enter the dark room

Self portrait, eyes closed: the red thread runs down the centre of the face and ends in a loose knot resting in an open palm
the thread ends in an open palmfrom the webbed series

"The song has ended but the melody lingers on…"

- Falguni

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