Charcoal Drawings

Sajitha Shankar is the most significant young artist that I have ever known.

She uses the sombre colors of a nightmare to depict the awesomme, unalterable misery of human existence. The anguished faces and distended bellies can haunt us and communicate the truth that this world that came to us as an undeserved inheritance is still as imperfect, still as pregnant with pain...

Kamala Das