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Dust in the Wind

Mokshapradha Kumar

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Hi! I’m Moksha, a mixed media artist based in London and Bangalore.

My practice has evolved from children’s book illustration and instructional design into printmaking, portraiture, and sculpture. I use making as a way of thinking, exploring how everyday objects and materials hold memory and emotion.

I’m fascinated by connections between people, objects, and spaces, and how time changes those relationships. My art questions and explores the human quest for belonging and the traces we leave behind to tie ourselves to our past, or more accurately, the familiar.

Hi! I’m Moksha, a mixed media artist based in London and Bangalore.

My practice has evolved...

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Where does the old end and the new begin?

Objects hold lived experiences; they weave our past into the physical world, becoming tangible traces of both memory and imagination. Yet objects are never still. They shift and transform over time – just as we do, and as our memories do. Their meanings fade, dissolve, and eventually they become something entirely new.

This mixed-media installation explores this reaction to change, the consequences of time. The search for a place to call home and the transitions we undergo in response to shifting places. It captures the tension between holding on to what is familiar and the quiet curiosity that draws us toward what lies ahead. Slowly, the fragments we once clung to fall away, and the new quietly takes their place, a continual becoming. 

Rooted in personal reflections on navigating new places in life, homesickness, nostalgia, and an eventual, unexpected love for life in unfamiliar surroundings, I dwell on the idea of transitional identity: the need to move on, let go, and allow yourself to embrace the new.

Final work

  • Dust in the wind - Bureau make of word and dark grey mesh that is been block printed on with Silver ink.
  • Dust in the wind - Bureau make of word and dark grey mesh that is been block printed on with Silver ink with illustration at the bottom.
  • Dust in the wind - Bureau make of word and dark grey mesh that is been block printed on with Silver ink.
  • Printed mesh and clay sculptures of pink trumpet flowers.
  • Life size sculptures of pink trumpet flowers made with clay.
  • Dark grey mesh with silver block prints.
  • Illustrations with dry pastels on wood.
  • Illustrations with dry pastels on wood.
  • Illustrations with dry pastels on wood.
  • Clay sculptures of Pink Trumpet Flowers placed inside wooden Bureau.
  • Clay sculptures of Pink Trumpet Flowers placed inside wooden Bureau.
  • Clay sculptures of Pink Trumpet Flowers placed inside wooden Bureau.

Research and process

  • Portraits with dry and chalk pastels on wood and paper
  • Portraits from memory, dry and pastels.
  • Portraits from memory, dry and pastels.
  • Lino cut print on paper
  • Lino Print on Mesh
  • Lino cut test prints on mesh and paper

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Dust in the Wind

Where does the old end and the new begin?Objects hold lived experiences; they weave our past into the physical world, becoming tangible traces of both memory and imagination. Yet objects are never still. They shift and transform over time – just as we do, and as our mem...

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