Nirmala Biluka’s area of interest has been the portrayal of woman as creator or progenitor, often nature itself personified in a female form largely inspired from Indian concept of Prakriti and Purusha. Women in mundane activities are iconized in the present series of work. Nirmala’s works are strongly autobiographical, and she constantly uses the self-image as a reference as well as a protagonist in her work. The “Self”, its realization and its relation ...