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In Jayashree Chakravarty’s work, scale is not a product of dimensions alone, but also of “…the organic layering of material and imagery. Graphic markings enliven Chakravarty’s topography. They appear to be directional… but just as often are radio circuit boards, arbitrary graffiti, a jagged readout of an EKG, calligraphic meanderings and even guidance for New Age self-improvement. Human circulatory and nervous systems are suggested as equivalent... In Jayashree Chakravarty’s work, scale is not a product of dimensions alone, but also of “…the organic layering of material and imagery. Graphic markings enliven Chakravarty’s topography. They appear to be directional… but just as often are radio circuit boards, arbitrary graffiti, a jagged readout of an EKG, calligraphic meanderings and even guidance for New Age self-improvement. Human circulatory and nervous systems are suggested as equivalent to the roads we need to navigate her lush semiotic forest – easy to enter, difficult to leave. In fact, the symbolic body is present in an occasional mandala that might be read merely as a maze, or a fingerprint, or concentric ripples of a stone thrown into a pond. Chakravarty’s private journey into the depths of this encrusted terrain is a bit like mountain driving, with meandering roads changing suddenly into sharp switchbacks. It is both monumental and intimate… She conceals and reveals and then lures us to plumb the visceral and psychological pentimenti with her guidance” (Betty Seid, New Narratives: Contemporary Art from India, Mapin Publishing, Ahmedabad, 2007, p. 58, 59).

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