Taruna Khatri - Illustration, Photography and Videography Portfolio

taruna khatri

EDUCATION

Work EXPERIENCE

Bachelor of Architecture | Aug 2020

Writing Intern India Lost and Found April 2021 - Present

Institute of Architecture and Planning, Nirma university, Ahmedabad, Gujarat.

High School | May 2015 Sanskar International School, Jodhpur, Rajasthan

Research Assistant To Academician and Researcher Ar. Supriya Kukreja July 2020- Jan 2021

INTERESTS

SKILLS

Architecture Intern Kumar La Noce Jan 2019-July 2019

Software:

Publication/features

Plot no. 1, Ram nagar Industrial Area, Salwas Road, Jodhpur, Rajasthan

Writing Reading Illustrating Filmmaking Photography

Art&Found

Find me and my works at:

languages

Photoshop Illustrator Autocad Sketchup In-design Microsoft Office

8980451638 taruna4197@gmail.com

Hindi (Fluent) English (Fluent) Gujarati (Intermediate)

Others: Writing Sketching Painting Photography Videography Hand-modelling

Featured Illustration “A Sunday kind of Self-love” for Covid-19 relief funds Sadaneera 3 poems translated to Hindi by Lata Khatri WORKSHOPS Writing/s in Architecture:

by Apoorva Bose Dutta Jan 2021 - Feb 2021

About

Index Hi!

1. HALF.ARTED

I am Taruna, an architect, writer and illustrator based in Jodhpur, Rajasthan. I am a self-disciplined, independent thinker of a perceptive nature with a keen interest in history, culture, art, literature, philosophy and human nature.

My work is mainly focused on mental health and personal philosophical ramblings.

I like exploring various mediums of expressions depending on the idea.

I use illustrations/cartoons to converse with myself, in addition to writing poetry and essays.

I aspire to build a Animation and Writing.

career

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(Cartoons, Illustrations, Animation)

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2. PHOTOGRAPHY Page 18-23

3. VIDEOGRAPHY Page 24-25

4. WRITING Page 26-27

Half.arted Personal project consisting of cartoons, illustrations, animation art aimed at selfexploration, expression of mental health, philosophy, and the human condition.

This section shows personal, commissioned and featured works Find more HERE

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Work commenting on the nature of the world, social compulsions and definitions; and our own visceral universes, These are attempts at unlearning, redefining and looking at established norms from a critical point of view.

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L: Commissioned Illustration R: Entry for “Voice of Art” contest by Vivel, India (shortlisted)

The brief was to illustrate four friends spending a relaxing evening on a gazebo, featuring elements from their lives - a boardgame, a frequently spotted, shady aeroplane and a pet dog.

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On choice and being told “One cannot do it all” The brief was to create something empowering for women with the spirit of no compromises (“Ab Samjhauta Nahi”).

The illustration shows a woman who refuses succumb to one choice for the fear of missing out on others.

The distressed expression shows her determination to follow her heart despite difficulty.

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Left to Right Entry for “Design Fights Covid” Campaign by Art&Found Artwork to raise funds for people affected by Covid-19. gathered by Art For Charity Series of Illustrations for Mind Research Foundation on the topic “Work From Home” in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic

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Still life illustration

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On the tendency of artists of remaining torn between hiding (for the fear of feeling exposed) and revealing (for the sake of authenticity)

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F r o w n Stills from experiment in disfiguration to push the limitation of facial expression View

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C l o s e d Stills from short animation experiment to express isolation View

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Indifference Left: Acrylic on paper Right: Stills from short animation

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Experiment in animation to express feelings of detachment, absurdity and aloofness View

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Photography Pictures captured during architecture school and others.

View more here and here

Girl undoing braid at Vanakabara, Diu, Gujarat.

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Curatain Auroras in a sleeper bus

Navratri faces, Ahmedabad, Gujarat

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Meloncholy Monk at Punakha Dzong, Punakha, Bhutan

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Man flinging bird food at Pushkaer, Rajasthan

Potrait of a woman at Sarnath, Uttar Pradesh 21

// Sabarmati Ashram | Ahmedabad

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Explorations in capturing essence of ideology and architecture

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Videography Left to Right Banaras Ghats, cloth and Architecture View Flower Market, Ahmedabad View Strawberry Fields in Rishikesh View

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Writing Poetry, Personal Essays, reviews Find more here

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I have a sudden urge of being on a train, maybe it’s the urge of being in a cradle rock-a-by I wish it was raining this is perhaps a craving for static a combination would be ideal a train cutting through a downpour.

My compartment has to be a Japanese home complete with tatamis and shoji I’ll make do with the whirring trees for my Zen garden mountains for sculptures: a rocking, moving home perfect to sit in, perfect to lie on the floor amorphous like the glass.

I will dissolve into the patter of static against the window and then into the sway of my moses’ basket until there is no until until everything in me saturates with a quiet of the outside and I exist only there.

How must a man’s heart thirst for his depressions to seek which he reaches again and again to sources that scooped him out in the first place How famished the inner child unsatiated, unloved aware of the hands that pierced holes in him drained him of all things soft stole his innocence robbed him of sensitivity left him locked in yearning for respite with an urge to proof ‘You broke me but I became someone look, how I flap for you to see, I am someone now will you love me with your little heart, please?’

To those who have trouble falling asleep those whose eyes are but canoes at the edge of the shore No amount of buoyancy enough to lure them in so for once they can stop wobbling over the jitter the waves are composed of and start floating over the quiet lid of slumber I say Stop trying Open your eyes I have heard it tires them out until they’re left with no choice but to fall shut even though the struggle is about the resistance exerted by the gusts of thoughts that drive the waves away, breaking them down to ripples always in the opposite direction Tonight I have decided to pour them out turn poetry into a turbine well aware that the produce will be little as Sripples can give but enough to console me tomorrow when I struggle sleepless through the day

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FOR YOUR TIME AND CONSIDERATION Reach me at: taruna4197@gmail.com +91 8980451638