"if your nerve deny you/go above your nerve" (emily dickinson) Print

Sai’s current focus is creating highly textured abstracts with mixed materials and a variety of tools. She accepts queries from serious collectors and can be contacted via her website Art is often born of an intent to examine and communicate. Perhaps it is also born of “excess...great terrors, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities” as Anaïs Nin wrote. Sai is deeply invested in understanding how cultures and systems of oppression come to be, how we deal with them from various levels of power, how that relates to our history, our fast-changing natural environment, our contemporary psychology, aesthetic sensibility, and our social structures and institutions. Her art is a response to those observations and experiences. “For there are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt — of examining what those ideas feel like,” wrote Audre Lorde, pointing to the universal pursuit of examining life and its struggles that all artists participate in. That is why you might see a quote or two associated with pieces in Sai’s current body of work, because those words from artists, writers, poets, and others she has found solidarity with, remark sharply on something she feels compelled to express through her own sensibility. The expression is original, but the contemplation is often part of a timeless, shared pursuit - a connection which Sai finds great joy in. sai_pradhan_art on Instagram on FB