The process I choose to create a mark is a kind of walk that I want to take with others, a walk that’s outside of our comfort-zones but eventually aims to make us more comfortable. Instead of being overwhelmed about the end outcome or the destination, I choose to stitch pieces of the unknown in my surroundings, my thoughts, the sounds I listen to or an earworm I can’t resist all into a surface. Rather than approaching the surface directly I choose to talk through a medium which helps me self-reflect and allows me to imagine. Therefore the mark-making & imagination walk simultaneously. It imbues a certain interaction with the body that makes it more intimate and inclusive.
The process in itself is an amalgamation of different points, moments, events and conversations in time. My attempt is to weave all these non-linear narratives on a fixed surface, which in itself is the ‘one point’ that binds all these narratives together.

Curator Charulata Mukherjee says

To create an idiosyncratic window into a moment of remarkable creative ferment, Swati Kumari uses mark making and imagination walk. Like in life we do certain things with some intention but we are unaware of the consequences as it depends on the time and situation. Similarly she self reflects and allows her imagination to flow on a surface without getting overwhelmed by the end result or trying to control what it should look like in the end. The material is perishable and the carbon marks keep changing its colour with time. The aging of the works has a metaphor of life.