This project explores the dialogue between color, history and memory, using red and blue as carriers of meaning, emotion, and abstraction. It focuses on indigo and red spices, materials deeply rooted in the histories of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Indigo recalls the colonial past, the labor of farmers, and acts of resistance, while red spices trace trade, ritual, and vitality. These pigments are not merely visual elements, they are material vessels of history and memory.

CHROMATIC CONVERSATIONS

The project photographs red and blue fabrics in wave-like forms, letting light and shadow reveal their fluidity and movement. Separately, the pigments are captured in flat lays, emphasizing texture, color, and presence. Colored gels casted on reflective and transparent surfaces are used, letting light become an active participant that shapes shadows, forms, and abstraction. Later, pieces from these images are cut and assembled into still life compositions, creating layers where the two colors interact, contrast, and harmonize.

Through still life, this project uses color as a language of feeling and history, exploring how abstraction can convey tension, connection, and resonance. The interaction between red and blue becomes a metaphor for memory, fragmentation, and reconstruction. Chromatic Conversations is a space where light, color, and texture converse, carrying the weight of past and present, material and immaterial, and inviting viewers to experience the emotional and historical resonance of color itself.