Building on her own recent ‘Udaan’ series, city-based artist Anita Goel will show her latest artworks in an exhibition titled ‘Avataran’ at the Jehangir Art Gallery, this week. Goel, who began work on the former series 12 years ago, says the latter is an extension and culmination of sorts of what she always wanted to depict through her art: freedom and spirituality.

If not for the Covid-19 pandemic, Goel might have showcased some of the pieces in 2020, but she has been able to use this extended time in the last two years to introspect and gain insights, which in turn helped her add elements to the paintings. Through birds engraved on canvases of irregular shapes and non-uniform thickness