Residue

Block-printing tables often have a story to tell: of the print motifs, of the colors used, of the padding cloth on which printers leave their mark. These residues build up, unwittingly, into a singular, un-premeditated image, a naïve artwork, as many colours and print patterns overlap unselfconsciously over long periods of time.

In these block printed panels, textile designer Sandeep Dua subverts a traditional printing process by discarding conscious print, and retaining the residue of the process itself. A new canvas emerges, in which the principal pattern might be seen as occupying negative spaces. He deliberately imposes a form on the residues of this print by manipulating stencils to conceal and reveal elements in an 'image',that may be interpreted both as a narrative and a landscape.

As an urban practitioner, he chooses to use abstract and figurative elements that reflect architectural sprawl, as well as the human energy and chaos in his own immediate working environment; that of industrial, suburban Gurgaon.