Indian inspired prints

This year, I went back to see my mother’s ancestral home. It encompassed a massive enmeshed Indian family living tightly together. My family was in textiles. I have taught myself natural dyeing and block printing. But my medium was always paper, it has a grain and a direction like fabric. But while fabric is utilitarian, paper is for writing stories and containing memories. These prints take colors from the walls, motifs, and the doors of those ancestral homes. I used a woodblock, but printed it with water based ink so the colors were aqueous and full. I layered the colors, and used the water to make drips and layers.