Chaff & light trash

A thesis show by Bhavani Srinivas
November 20–23, 2020
Hagan Gallery, 185 Nassau St, Princeton, NJ

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  1 Bindi mirror
  2 Your hair is eating too!
  3 Thalippu
  4 Imaginary friends
  5 Ikat printers and loom
  6 Pindam
  7 1008 coconuts
  8 Beep
  9 Happy only
  10 Light trash
  11 Pathologized Caslon

 

 

 


“Put the rice in, and run cold water in to fill the pot so that
the chaff and light trash floats to the top. Some grains of rice
will rise, too, but save them.”

—Edna Lewis in theTaste of Country Cooking

 

 

 

 

 
  

Bindi mirror

1

   



Canvas, transparency film, pokeberries, goldenrod, sticker pottus, metallic thread, green marble gesso, beads, methyl cellulose




Your hair is eating too!

2

      




Velvet book cloth, silk and cotton fabric from Nalli 100, my hair, foundation, methyl cellulose, hair dye, collagen paper, turmeric, lampworked glass beads

 


Thalippu

3

      
 




Lamp, hand-forged copper, karuveppilai, milagu, ponni, Carolina Gold rice, wire, copper pipe, brick wall fragments, silk cotton shibori, wood, cotton, polyester and metallic thread, steel cylinders, indigo-dyed twine, wooden dowel, cardboard tube, spraypaint, steel square tube

 


Imaginary friends

4

  
    




Fountain pumps, cochineal, madder root, pre-reduced indigo, osage orange sawdust, silk, yak and wool yarns, carpet, copper electrical wire, water, plastic trays, copper pipe, plastic tubing, copper refrigeration coil

 


Ikat printers and loom

5

   
   




Dye from imaginary friends, cinderblocks, fragments of brick wall, plastic bag, tote bags, chemical dye, spray paint, cardboard tube, cotton yarn, copper pipe, pipe hanger strap, stone beads

 


Pindam

6

        



Silk, cotton, and synthetic fabric from Nalli 100, Japan and Nepal, bookcloth from Firestone Conservation Lab, glass beads, spray-painted staples, paper towel, silk cotton, paruppu podi, oil paint, collected fibers, wood shavings, dye plant seeds, nastursium seeds, rust, plastic bags, hair, sticker pottu packets, paper, notebook, surya chandra, jewelry, bells, shalangai, PBJ sandwich, jar, linen, wool, cotton, nettle and synthetic yarns, keychains, varsity letters, woodblock, mussel shells, doll heads, sequins, leaves, projectors, cardboard boxes, aqua-resin, acai beads, Lloyd's Register project forms

 


1008 coconuts

7

    
  



Electrical wire, plastic coated chain, rhinestone chain, raw silk, plaster gauze casts, cotton thread, raw silk, projector, video, brick wall fragments, steel frame, rubber tubing, leather, culvert drainage pipe

 


Beep

8

   



Artist books: Please close the door and Wanted, electrical wire, wool yarn, leather, culvert drainage pipe, screws

 


Happy only

9

    
Eversilver engraved by Tamil Arasu. Carpet woven under the instruction of Prasida Chavan.


Stainless steel tumblers and dabaras from Ratna Stores, cotton yarn

 


Light trash

10

    



Lampworked glass, charcoal, sticker pottus, plaster casts, kolam powder, glitter, dragon skin, aluminum foil, duct tape, wooden dowel and block, alginate, silk, indigo, cochineal, walnut hulls, cotton yarn, chemical dye, hand-forged copper, steel wire, fork, foam, carpet

 


Pathologized Caslon

11

 

This website is typeset in Pathologized Caslon, a distortion of the semibold weight of Carol Twombly's Adobe Caslon Pro that I made for Art Hx.

 

 

 





Chaff & light trash is a thesis show by Bhavani Srinivas. Chaff & light trash was installed from November 20–23, 2020 in Hagan Gallery at 185 Nassau Street, the building that houses Princeton University's Program in Visual Arts.

Hagan Gallery and Princeton University occupy the unceded traditional territory of the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation.


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Documentation was photographed by Megan Pai, Victor Guan, and T.R. Srinivas.

I thank my advisors, Martha Friedman, David Reinfurt, and Anna Arabindan-Kesson, as well as James Welling, Laura Coombs, and MJ Daines for their generous advice. I am also grateful to the staff at 185, especially Nick Sharpe and Orlando Murgado, Eric Li, Eli Berman, Somi Jun, MC Otani, Ariane Fong, Sharon Musa, Sophie Wheeler, Cammie Lee, Victor Guan, Megan Pai, Jhor van der Horst, Janette Lu, and Gaby Pollner, and my parents, grandparents, and brothers for their support.