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three sheets of brown paper with acrylic paint of various colors applied with a palette knife. The image is of three hands in black ink, with pink, green, orange, white, blue, and gold paint in the background.
the image is a painted depiction of Ganesha with blue skin and white designs. There is a lotus flower painted in the crook of Ganesha's trunk, a gold loop around his left tusk, and he is garlanded with marigold flowers, peonies, large jasmine flowers. The paintings are collaged onto a canvas board that has been covered in pages of the Mahabharata written in Tamil.
The image is two pieces of off-set white watercolor paper. The first and higher image is on the viewer's left side, and has green and gold streaks of watered-down green and gold acrylic paint splattered in arcs. The second is lower on the right, with red and gold watered down acrylic paint splattered in intersecting grids.
The image is of a block printed hand garlanded in a necklace of black, pearl, and gold painted beads. The background is blue, green, lavender, and orange paint, with orange marigolds painted along the left side and middle of the painting. White linen paper is visible in pieces around the piece, giving the background a patchwork-like appearance.
The image is of a block-printed black frame, set on a bias. the background of the piece is swirling yellow, pink, orange, blue, and green paint, with block printed jasmine flowers encircling the frame.
The image contains acrylic painting, relief carving, block printing, and weaving.
The image background is purple, orange, and pale pink paint scraped across the linen paper, highlighting the weave of the paper. Blue acrylic paint is two semi-parallel vertical 'rivers,' bending back and forth from the top to the bottom of the painting.
The image is a pink circle, with two hands with intertwined pinkies. There are three hearts emerging from above the hands. The left hand has a watch on its wrist and an image of a moon on the hand. The right hand has markings on the fingers and two bangles on the wrist. There is chatter from the block print streaking along the bottom of the image, inside the circle. The entire image is pink, and printed on top of handmade, cream paper.
black printing toner reading "D" "B" "O" on light blue construction paper with cut-out windows revealing text on the next page
The image is painted streaks and blotches of blue, purple, and pink paint, with beads of gold paint running horizontally across the page.
The image is two framed rectangles on one piece of pink paper. The rectangle on the left has a rosette in the center. The rectangle on the right has relief-carved rosettes on the left-hand side, with the words "Already Felt" and "Poems in Revolt and Bounty." there is a pair of leaves on a stem in the right-hand bottom corner. The block is printed in black ink.

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