Drawing Room: Madhu Das on the light in Sheela Gowda’s Darkroom

Bengaluru-based Sheela Gowda has used cow dung, kumkum powder, human hair and several other unusual objects, often foraged in markets and on roadsides, to create art. Her work is, in her own words, an attempt to “transform the material without changing its identity too much and weave in my own ideas in the larger sense of the work, so both of them exist side by side.”