Alka Mathur is a visual artist who works with mixed media. Earth matter, time, divine feminine energy, memory, maternal and intergenerational histories are themes which inspire and preoccupy her, permeating her practice in diverse ways. Nature plays a significant role in the artist’s work and the contours and cracks of the parched land of her home Rajasthan, have always found their way into her relationship with material. Using natural dyes, earth pigments and found objects, Alka’s work blurs the line between traditional and contemporary. Primarily abstract in nature the torn, burnt and frayed edged paper, canvas or cloth, dyed and stained are outpourings where inner journeys, places and memories overlap. The running stitch is an integral motif, representing the meditative, repetitive process analogous to the everyday rituals of women reworking old pieces of cloth. Her work on used tea bags are both anecdotal and autobiographical archiving the ordinary, everyday happenings where the artist presents herself in fragments, while also encouraging the viewer to become a participant.