Some of the pictures from my latest work, a book on the history of women’s movement for rural and semi urban readers. The narrative evolves around 7 women who meet and talk about different concepts, life and what it is like to be a woman in today’s India.
The book is scattered with debates, songs and poems.
I found the text quite bold and rather well written. There are references to Mira, Sita… debates about the ‘nobility’ of Ram who stood by as his wife had to undergo a trial by fire.
These 3 illustrations are some of the final options I arrived at for some text on patriarchy. The client and I had a hard time getting this one right. The concept of patriarchy is more easily explained with words, putting it down into a defined visual proved not very easy. Especially because pictures can be interpreted in so many ways… but then that’s what is rather magical about visual language I suppose.
A few of the motifs and borders that will be scattered around in the book.
This is the first of 4 books. And it is exciting to be part of something that you know will lend to some change however small, but significant nevertheless.
