Street Art in Mumbai

A big influence to my work was the variety of street murals a I saw while visiting family in Mumbai. 

I was especially drawn to the mosaic murals on the stairs leading to Mount Mary church- The use of color and shape to form stylized image with mosaic appealed to me visually, and made me want to incorporate a similar look in my own practice.

At this point I no longer felt like a visual novel would work for what I wanted to make, and so was debating how to make my work in a more analogue way. After seeing these murals, I decided that I wanted to work with some kind of print- though I wasn’t sure which kind. 

The detailed lines in these murals really stood out to me- I wanted to include them in my work no matter the medium I went with. In the end, I settled on working with Lino, but carved it in a way that I would still maintain the linework used in my art to resemble the detailed textures in the murals here.