Remember this Return
Spring 2026
Statement of Creative Process
In this collection, I adapt new processes to transform works of art I’ve created over the years and develop new projects. I am experimenting with blending traditional practices and materials(oil, acrylic, pen and ink on various kinds of canvas/paper) with emerging technologies of image generation. This particular curation draws on storytelling traditions and aesthetic forms from the Indian subcontinent within the Hindu tradition.
As I develop and refine this collection, I think about the productive tensions between space and time, tradition and contemporaneity, culture and technology, community and globality, history and ecology.
Technology certainly puts extraordinary ethical and philosophical pressure on artists. At the same time, when technology is used as a tool in the creative process, it can be tremendously generative. To this end, I take inspiration from various print and pre-print technologies of image transfer, particularly practices such as woodcuts, woodblock, lithograph, intaglio, tessarae, inlay work, and other processes.
DIVYA NAIR 