The paintings of Karishma D’souza in the exhibition ‘Bridges’ are documentations of specific places and people, filtered through poetry which foregrounds a common humanity. The works draw most consistently on the oral poetry of the 15^th century weaver-poet Kabir, who spoke from the midst of society – from the marketplace and the road. The poet addressed divisive thinking that maintained the status quo, in a time of fragmentation he stitched and joined, through warnings and reminders.

The imagery in the paintings move from represented memories to objects as signs of preciousness in life – love, understanding, knowledge, and growth – with light as a reference to an excerpt: ‘..as a web of light is flung across those dim places of the body where we hate to hide again.’, from the poem ‘An October Morning’, by Jayanta Mahapatra.