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Notabandi
Product ID: KoalpkarHarshada_202505_09_005_3636
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| Size | : 36" x 36" |
| Medium | : Acrylic |
| Surface | : Canvas |
| Frame | : Included in the price |
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Notabandi is a 36" x 36" acrylic original by artist Harshada Kolapkar, seating two women back to back on small painted stools against a pale tiled backdrop. Neither woman's clothing is a plain saree here — both are collaged from a dense patchwork of miniature houses, moons, birds, and rooftops, an entire neighborhood folded into fabric and worn like a second skin, so that clothing and dwelling become the same painted surface.
The woman at left turns her head to look out toward the viewer, her sleeve and skirt built from stacked pale buildings and a scatter of small white circles standing in for moons or lanterns; the woman at right, seen mostly from behind, carries the same house-and-moon patterning across her shoulders and back, so the two figures read as a matched pair despite facing away from each other.
Kolapkar paints both figures as dark, near-silhouetted forms, letting the collaged houses do the work of surface detail rather than adding it through the skin or the face — the women themselves stay simple and still, while the buildings worked across their bodies carry all the incident and texture the painting has to offer.
The stools they sit on are painted pale blue and patterned with small dark fish, a quiet echo of the fish motif that recurs elsewhere across Kolapkar's Guest Artist series, tying this piece back into her broader visual vocabulary even as its subject shifts toward something heavier.
The tiled background, worked in soft cream, grey, and ochre patches, keeps the two figures the clear focus without competing for attention, its muted checkerboard giving the painting an even, settled calm despite the density built into the clothing itself.
This is a hand-painted acrylic original on canvas, not a reproduction. The collaged house patterning carries fine detail worth viewing at close range, where individual rooftops and windows separate out from the larger pattern.
Notabandi sits alongside pieces like Message in Kolapkar's Guest Artist collection, continuing her practice of building meaning into what a figure wears or carries rather than into an added symbol placed nearby. Its square format and quiet palette suit a hallway, landing, or reading nook where its stillness has room to settle.
The title points toward displacement and economic upheaval, and the houses stitched across these women's bodies read as homes carried close rather than left behind — a quiet, literal way of wearing what's been unsettled, carrying an entire street of homes on two backs rather than setting any of it down.
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