Bengal Sutro

Year: Undated
Medium: Handloom cotton Jamdani sarees and zinc plate photographs

The transition of Bengal as the epicenters of business with significant activities, exchange and connections root back to establishment to make European trade center in 1600.

My photograph of one of the settlements of the European colonizers and the architecture of the silk industry still exist in Bangladesh are etched in zinc plate. And also, a colorful Bengali 16 century map with silk road evolved into a tant sari (woven from cotton threads) carrying the forms on it,

Materials:

Handloom

40 Count Line Handloom cotton two Jamdani Saree with Bengal geography in 1600 century and the silk road through color painted on 2 Sharee

color: Acramin

size: 111-inch X 43 inch each saree,

hand weaving

6 photograph of European stallers infrastructure in Bangladesh side in 16 centuries on zinc plate

Size: 6.5inch x 8 inch

Small zinc plate depicting a weathered two-story colonial building displayed in a white frame.
Small zinc plate depicting a columned structure among trees displayed in a white frame.
Reddish zinc plate depicting the front of a historic building displayed in a white frame.
Small zinc plate depicting a long white masonry building displayed in a white frame.
Small zinc plate depicting a church facade and cross displayed in a white frame.
Translucent pink textile map hangs behind a white pedestal in an exhibition space.
Bright pink Jamdani textile patterned with a blue river-like line and colorful geometric forms across a worktable.
Five small framed zinc plates arranged in a row on a blue gallery wall.

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