Self-Portraits

In these paintings Keerthi has painted herself. Her face, her hands and her clothes are painted so closely that they look like a photograph. Look at the light on the skin, the folds of the red scarf and the shine on the teacup.

The backgrounds are different. They are flat and full of colour, with cut-out pictures, packets, cats and insects. Dark sunglasses, playing cards, flies and bees come back in many of the paintings. So each picture is a real-looking person sitting in a world that is not real.