In February, the museum acquired the painting “Home416” — the first by a contemporary Nepali artist to be included in the MFA's collection. The artist shares her reflections on this milestone and the story behind the piece.
If you live in Massachusetts there's a pretty good chance you've seen one of Nepali artist Sneha Shrestha's massive, eye-popping murals. Via her street name
In February, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston acquired one of Shrestha's paintings — titled “Home416” — and it's the first by a contemporary Nepali artist to be included in the MFA's collection. When you don’t have the choice to go home, it’s quite a difficult feeling. The yearning for home becomes so…primal. My mind was always flooded with things that were the ESSENCE of what home means to me.
I chose to write the first letter of the Nepali alphabet, over and over again, in the same size. It's the letter my hand is most familiar with because it's the first letter we learn as children. Think of the letter 'A,' and the familiarity one has with it. In a way, this painting represents my mind at its stillest. And I love this. I love that my mind has this power. When I didn’t know what was coming next, I painted to help myself cope; not for an audience, but for me and my mind. So, I went back to why I started painting in the first place as a child growing up in Kathmandu, when it was just for me.I chose the blue background on the painting because it is the color of the sky.
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