https://www.preetigargschaden.com/home daily 1.0 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600f18b0432fbe48d3c43c56/ae59ff3f-162d-4a8d-bce9-4ef2ac9a2a6e/Fragmenting.jpg Home - photographer. writer. artist. Fragmenting https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600f18b0432fbe48d3c43c56/36f060ff-b131-4426-b3f0-c3fa9e5f177c/Propeller+Gallery+Show.jpg Home - Make it stand out Trying at Propeller Art Gallery, Toronto https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600f18b0432fbe48d3c43c56/63a5893d-e49a-4626-9380-3f7c9d5c75cd/jones+gallery+inhabiting.jpg Home - Make it stand out Inhabiting at Jones Gallery, Kansas City https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600f18b0432fbe48d3c43c56/381d8cf4-e771-4d49-a050-eff46bbbefd4/Art+Garage+show.jpg Home - Make it stand out Loving at The Art Garage, Green Bay https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600f18b0432fbe48d3c43c56/a0427e49-1447-4849-94ec-210d80584194/Newburyport+Art+Show+2.jpg Home - Make it stand out Withholding at Newbury Port Art Association, Massachusettes https://www.preetigargschaden.com/contact daily 0.75 2022-05-17 https://www.preetigargschaden.com/about daily 0.75 2022-05-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600f18b0432fbe48d3c43c56/2a44cde3-1cfb-431f-814f-fa7380a31938/preeti_about1.jpg about photo by Jessica Johnston https://www.preetigargschaden.com/self-portrait-series daily 0.75 2022-04-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600f18b0432fbe48d3c43c56/1618423785990-LQM0JRBAL1O1QH0159TB/a_Witholding.jpg self portrait series WITHHOLDING - depicts my discomfort as the subject. As a recovered anorexic, being in front of the camera feels scary in the same ways as looking in the mirror. As the photographer, I seek to portray vulnerability pushing myself to stop withholding from the lens and from myself. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600f18b0432fbe48d3c43c56/1618423692968-ZW6718SKQOYQKJ0X2E80/b_Trying.jpg self portrait series TRYING - explores the themes of belonging not just in a physical house and family, but within myself, my body, my clothing, and being in my own skin – searching the places I hide from others and myself. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600f18b0432fbe48d3c43c56/1612983129406-54NBXBAPZMBHQUJL6MAX/Weighing.jpg self portrait series WEIGHING - explores my tense relationship with the sari, a traditional Indian garment worn by women after adolescence. A sari drapes a woman's figure, outlining her youth and beauty and later giving way to her bodies' aging. Every time I wear a sari I feel overexposed with my mid-section hanging out and the threat of the garment falling off my body, leaving me naked. It is yet another struggle with my Indian-American identity that I cannot resolve. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600f18b0432fbe48d3c43c56/1612982676404-2XFNEXM02FFIULLN3MXL/Praying.jpg self portrait series PRAYING - unlocks the deeper pain of not belonging, literally replacing the backdrop of my world with a white wall. It is the search for some solace within myself and the hope of releasing the burden of self hatred I have carried my entire life. It captures the deep prostration of those seeking enlightenment through the Hindu teachings of my childhood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600f18b0432fbe48d3c43c56/fe52c655-e370-4cdf-8148-36d1435dea74/Unleashing.jpg self portrait series UNLEASHING - releases my inner demons and the monster I was too afraid to face. The eyes see it all. It is a point of reckoning with every part of myself - the ones I have tried to suppress, exile and finally welcome. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600f18b0432fbe48d3c43c56/004572cb-4be5-44cf-8314-79d2b9c68127/Transforming.jpg self portrait series TRANSFORMING - captures a moment in time where my pain, anger and innate sense of being all emerge in full view of one another. The vision for this photo came to my mind before I achieved it in the camera. In this photo, I find my art transformed into a tool for healing and self discovery, unlocking repressed aspects of myself and bringing to the surface my vulnerability and truest self. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600f18b0432fbe48d3c43c56/1613422710479-OZGKVK1L6K107BNM1VSZ/Claiming.jpg self portrait series CLAIMING - represents shedding the pain and shame I have felt about my body. My willingness to expose my body fully in the frame and claim myself mark a new milestone in my life. After spending my life recovering from an eating disorder that almost killed me 30 years prior, I have achieved a freedom I never thought possible. I can finally give the viewer all of me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600f18b0432fbe48d3c43c56/1613422824141-B21LMEX3VHZRIE2V1Z0N/Releasing.jpg self portrait series RELEASING - captures my inner and outer self in complete surrender. Having shed the need to control, withhold and protect myself from myself, I can finally allow serenity. This is a moment of releasing into self renewal and rebirth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600f18b0432fbe48d3c43c56/1613422785168-ZYQU2KZ0G5RN65R7S9NK/Inhabiting.jpg self portrait series INHABITING - represents a new inhabiting of myself after a journey of shedding. It was an image I woke up with in the middle of the night as an answer to the question: is there something more I am inhabiting within myself? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600f18b0432fbe48d3c43c56/1613422869745-L4EAFGB3RVYJ2D4LH2SZ/Loving.jpg self portrait series LOVING - embodies the nurturing I have longed for my entire life. I have finally found the power to mother myself in the absence of being mothered. It signifies a new awakening in my life and sense of belonging in a world, now created and shaped by me. https://www.preetigargschaden.com/pagecv daily 0.75 2022-12-30 https://www.preetigargschaden.com/artist-statement daily 0.75 2022-06-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600f18b0432fbe48d3c43c56/6d15581a-0ed0-4ef8-b6b6-110982d55dd2/FeelingRed.jpg artist statement - Make it stand out Feeling Red