Part of Megha Joshi’s critically acclaimed From the covid diaries series, this cohesive six-panel collection completely bypasses decorative staging, utilizing pure watercolor washes to isolate stylized female silhouettes against a clean background void. The sequential composition maps out an intense graphic rhythm where the blue-toned anatomical figures are captured mid-flight, performing complex martial arts movements against the heavy, repetitive traps of domestic space. By shifting the narrative from passive observation to high-impact athletic movement using irons, brooms, and dishes as defensive elements, the artist structuralizes a direct visual essay on confinement and the gendered boundaries famously defined by Simone de Beauvoir.
 
This set of Figurative drawings has been like a Covid-19 diary of one woman and her domestic realm. Simone de Beauvoir, the century's most iconic feminist scholar, called the burden of women's housework a "Sisyphean torture." In her book The Second Sex, she says, "Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: clean becomes dirty, dirty is cleaned, again and again, day after day. The housewife wears herself out marking time: she does nothing, she simply perpetuates the present... Eating, sleeping, cleaning: the years no longer soar skyward, they stretch out ahead, gray and identical. The battle against dust and grime is never won." This sort of sums up the inspiration behind these artworks. So there are vegetables, fruits, and flowers, etc., playful battles with the cleaning series, the tragedy of the death of the pigeon in her studio, etc. Each one is a true story.
 
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