Yashika Sugandh: Vartaman

Yashika Sugandh is a visionary not because she escapes reality, but because she pays deep attention to it. Her delicate, intricate drawings conjure a whimsical world where snails carry giraffes, monkeys snack on watermelon tails, and turtles become tomatoes. Her work is held together by an ethic of wonder, tenderness, and ecological imagination. A collaborator with nature, Sugandh uses found objects as mediums, suggesting a cohesion of humanity and nature. Time, in Sugandh’s work, does not tick, it expands. Above all, Sugandh’s work invites us to soften, to notice the easily missed, the fragile, the barely-there. In a world that asks us to rush past, Vartaman asks us to stay a little longer. Not in resistance, but in reverence.