“In India it was customary for a woman to be married to a tree……”

My two works in this exhibition explore aspects of custom and nature.

In The Groom Awaits the Fetish Brides it is the ritual that leads to the erotic delight exchanged with “The Ashoka Tree that aches to be touched by the foot of a fair woman so that it can burst into bloom”.

In The Dowry Thieves it is the symbolic expression of the ongoing harsh and shameful plight of those promised Brides, lured into a faithless marriage, stripped of their dowries and trapped in a foreign land.