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SARASIJA SUBRAMANIAN

Works
· Lily
· Ban the old, dry methods
· Ban the old, dry methods/ The Human Adventure
· Anatomy of Plants / The Classification of Taste
· The Dictionary of Gardening
· And then the lotus eaters came 
· Lotophagi
     · And others, the less forgiving ones, they frighten us   
    · Something’s Missing
    · As she rises and falls  
    · Mass finished, the rock began to walk, and returned to the sea 
    · You run the risk of weeping a little, if you get yourself tamed    
   · (An)archive
    · Alternative Botanicals

Ban the old, dry methods / Serigraphs

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SARASIJA SUBRAMANIAN

Lily


Set of 5 drawings on individual wooden tables, variable dimensions
2025



Lily is born of a studio exercise, where in a momen of not knowing where to start, I began to trace, to translate an image from one page to
another, and then another, and then another, each time shifting the process slightly—thinking f how translation is often spoken of as the closest form of reading; how nothing, however seemingly insignificant, can be taken for granted during the process.

The image is one of lily bulbs between seasons, uprooted and piled in a corner of my mother’s garden, waiting to be repotted, but nevertheless beginning to grow where they lay.


i. Graphite on Graph Paper







ii. Graphite on Fabriano Rustica White







iii. Ink on Arches







iv. Coloured Graphite on American Gateway







v. BLICK Portrait Colour Pencil Set on Fabriano Pergamon Natural Shade