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“The Flower Eater” red hibiscus pale girl mixed media A5

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“The Flower Eater” red hibiscus pale girl mixed media A5

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The girl is eating hibiscus flowers, common flowers in eastern India where I’m from - but there's nothing common about hibiscus. Tucked in the hair of aunties and divas, offered to the gods, trembling with life in the monsoons. Best stuffed in large mouthfuls.

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This is an A5 drawing of a flower eater eating red hibiscus. A flower eater can briefly slip away from all the rubbish when the petals sink in her mouth and shrink. Flowers are great in a salad. They are fun and transportive. Eating flowers is quietly rebellious.

I made this small piece on thick watercolour paper prepared for cyanotype, and masked out the hibiscus silhouettes. After washing the paper and drying it to its profound blue, I filled the white hibiscus with thin red acrylic paint. I then drew in with colour pencils the girl who is disappearing in her sensation of pleasure, and filled in the shadows with pastel.

I will ship the drawing with stiff backing for safety, wrapped in tissue paper. I may use recycled packaging.

Designed by Kaushani Bhattacharya in London

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