The artwork is a personal journey going back to my first show in India, how and why I created such artworks, installations. Questioning myself why am I interested in Treading on the Post-Colonial Road, I trace back to the day of my first solo exhibition in 1984 in Kala Bhavan (an art gallery in Hyderabad, India). My parents’ friends who had come to see the show would walk in from the right of the gallery, looking at my works (they were very representative works in the sense of copying nature, landscapes, trees, animals, portraits, (fig. 1, 2, 3 & 4). They were thrilled; they appreciated my work: she is so good, it’s great, it looks so real . . . they would linger in front of these works for quite some time gazing at these paintings till they came to …
