Discovering the self: in conversation with Dyuti Mittal

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ABSTRACT In this conversation, Partha Bhattacharjee and Priyanka Tripathi will explore Dyuti Mittal’s (New Delhi, India) use of art, visual strategies, and avant-garde techniques she employs in her comics and graphic narratives. Through unusual patterns and unorthodox contents, Dyuti traverses through diverse visual semantics and experiments with the ink pen and colours. Being a contemporary avant-garde comics artist and writer, Mittal is renowned for her comics – Flaw, ‘The Taboo,’ ‘Imagining Loss,’ ‘Love Story,’ ‘I’m Pretentious,’ and ‘Jackals and Arabs’ among the others. She has her signature style of making art and she believes – ‘Do not let the self be defined, but question, search, find your own voice and reflect. Nothing can be built without a strong foundation and nothing is yours but the answers you seek.’ Within and beyond such declarations, graphic design, the art of storytelling, pencilling and inking, and employment of colours with proper implication – are the topics that will be discussed in this conversation. Upon careful analysis of Dyuti’s works, the conversation was conducted in a questionnaire via email.