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Chol x Shama Kun Lookbook

#sustainablefashion #kantha #streetwear

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Zoom Drawings: Catch up with Sarah Jane

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Reflections: The labels that hurt, Love remains.

Reflections: The labels that hurt, Love remains.

JULIET: “Tis but thy name that is my enemy; Thou art thyself, though not a Montague. What’s Montague? …O, be some other name! What’s in a name? that which we call a rose By Any Other Name would smell as sweet; So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call’d, Retain that dear perfection which he owes Without that title.” (Romeo and Juliet, Act-II, Scene-II, Lines 38-49)

Its Sunday 12 July, we are more than 4-5…

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Pride2020: Drawings of Queer Bangladeshi Men

Pride2020: Drawings of Queer Bangladeshi Men

Just a snippet of the current drawing project to celebrate Bangladeshi queer, gay men. The project is to compliment Pride Month, and being mindful of the pandemic, the sitters are posing currently via video calls, they are both A4 sketch book size, and larger A2 size hand made paper drawings, with soft pastels, oil pastels, and a digital overlay of the celebrated Jamdani motif’s of Bangladesh. W…

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#Blacklivesmatter. Quick Reflections, some resources.

#Blacklivesmatter. Quick Reflections, some resources.

It’s Wednesday 3rd June, coming to 8pm. I’ve just had another day, perhaps the 7th or 8th day of internal restlessness. Am here in Dhaka, reading and seeing, hearing whats happening in the USA. Another murder of an innocent black man, George Floyd, by the police, in an absolutely inhumane way and the countless undocumented crimes against others. Following my consumption of news via digital…

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Urban_Land_Scapes. Panoramas from Dhaka / Bangladesh.

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Meditations 2: On self love, body and shame. Continuing on my thread of meditations on body, love, and beyond. It dawns on me the need to unravel my mind a bit, too.

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Drawings: Portraits from square sketchbook (1)

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Photographs: Train Journey through the English Landscape

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Photographs: Dhaka Rickshaws

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Meditations (1): On Queer love.

I’d just had a very brief exchange of texts with a friend, on our joint appreciation of Italo Calvino’s The Invisible City. And just like that, I’d felt the desire to reflect and meditate on love. Some more context needed perhaps? *We are amidst the most important historical phenomena to exist in our lifetime so far – the COVID19 Pandemic, so reflecting on an aspect of love, not all of love, by…

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Places. Land/Cityscapes. 2014- Ongoing

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Self Portrait (2018) After Robert Mapplethorpe

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Friends, beyond. 2015 – Ongoing

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Self Portraits. 2014 – ongoing

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Portraits of Kamalapur ( 2016-2018)

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Drawing Objects 3: A bunch of Bangladeshi Champa Kola ( bananas )