June 2022
Projection with Acrylic on Canvas Paper
2ft x 3ft, 
 

“Mother’s Lost Looks: Jag and Kangan” is a mix-media work consisting of both digital and analog visual arts mediums. This piece is made to convey the cultural heritage of Indo-Guyanese (Gaaye Gaaye) women as they both experience Eastern and Western traditions within marriage. In this case I focused on bridal clothing by using my mother’s bridal photos and her actual physical outfit as the subject from her wedding in 1998. Using the photographs of her wearing a white western wedding gown with a veil, I created a collage composition on adobe illustrator that allowed me to highlight her figure making it a silhouette. When creating the collage I focused on making the image project as a black and white silhouette allowing me to create my own makeshift version of a projection mapping. The silhouette does not cover the entire projection but rather it is its own entity in the middle of the screen. Having no photos at all of my mother in her eastern South Asian bridal wear, a red sari, I used her actual physical outfit as a subject to paint for the picture plan that the projection will be shown upon. Following the patterns sewed into the red fabric, I recreated the gold rangoli designs. When placing the pieces together it illuminated the red sari background as it shines through the “white spaces” of the projected silhouette. This technique intertwined both the digital and analog piece to create an aspect of the Indo-Guyanese heritage of combining both the western and eastern world together in celebration. The reason as to why I call it “Mother’s Lost Looks” is because of the irony that I don’t have the physical white wedding dress, that’s why I used the photographs and I also don’t have any photographs of my Mother wearing her red sari, only the actual outfit I have.