ARTIST STATEMENT
Colours are my language; textures, my punctuation. I don’t paint surfaces—I build landscapes of memory and possibility. Fabric frays into silence, rust speaks of time, paper bends into whispers. Each material insists on its own story, and together they argue, reconcile, and find harmony.
I never begin with certainty. I begin with fragments. A crease, a tear, a stain. What emerges is less a picture, more a dialogue—a reminder that nothing in life is ever singular or smooth.
Isn’t living also about layers? About what resurfaces after being buried, about what insists on being remembered? In my work, accidents become intention, absence becomes form, and the overlooked becomes luminous.
For me, abstraction is not escape—it is invitation. An unfinished sentence, a question without answer. Not to tell you what to see, but to make you pause, look longer, and perhaps, see yourself.
ARTIST BIO
Subhashree Routray builds her world through fragments—circles, squares, lines, and patterns that converse in rhythm. Her practice borrows from Cubist sensibilities yet remains deeply personal, translating everyday materials into meditations on balance, movement, and memory. Using collected packaging materials like corrugated sheets, carton boxes, brown paper bags, and magazine pages, she transforms the ordinary into mindful monument as modern relics.
Each work becomes an orchestration of pattern, forms, colour and texture—bold, playful, and quietly profound. In Routray’s universe, geometry breathes emotion; abstraction finds warmth. Her art is not about perfection but pulse—where forms repeat, collide, and finally settle into a harmony that feels unmistakably human.