Submission entry for WWF India's World Rhino Day celebration
Commissioned Podcast Cover Illustration for 'Thoughts On ___ ?' hosted by Rishabh Kansal and Abhishek Dasmunshy, streaming on Spotify and Apple Podcasts; character profiles based on the hosts
Illustration based on Cerberus, the three-headed hound of Hades that, according to Greek Mythology guards the gates of the Underworld and prevents the dead from escaping into the realm of living
PERSEPHONE : The woman who went from being known as 'Kore' (translation : Beautiful Maiden) to 'Persephone' (translation : Bringer of Death & Destruction), from being the Goddess of Spring to Queen of the Underworld. Across various tellings of her myth, the story of the pomegranate remains constant : While in the Underworld, Persephone ate a few pomegranate seeds, while her mother Demeter, Goddess of Harvest, wreaked havoc looking for her lost daughter, allowing no food-grain to grow on the earth's surface in her despair. Hearing the pleas of the hungry humans, Zeus intervened and asked Persephone to return to earth. However, having eaten food of the Underworld, Persephone was now obliged to spend a portion of the year with Hades. And so it became that while she spent her time on earth with her mother, flowers bloomed in warm weather, and her return to the underworld brought winter.
Persephone is not just a symbol of change from summer to winter and the return of life in spring, but also the transition from life to death itself. She is change, duality, contradiction, Life & Death.
Persephone is not just a symbol of change from summer to winter and the return of life in spring, but also the transition from life to death itself. She is change, duality, contradiction, Life & Death.
Illustration for ITC Vivel's 'VoiceOFArt' campaign based on the theme of gender equality. The concept is drawn upon the illustrations on playing cards depicting the King and Queen. Gone are the days of skincare and makeup being 'feminine', of equating sword- wielding and bravery with 'masculinity', of allocating adjectives and hues to genders, of blindly accepting propagated stereotypes. the future is neither male nor female - it is everything on the spectrum. Hence, the king is illustrated holding a flower, while the queen wields the sword.
Quirky take on The Hand of Fatima aka Hamsa, the symbol of happiness, luck, health, strength, protection and good fortune
