Artist Profile

KIRTIKA KAIN

inspiration, for others it undeniably presents itself. I made every possible decision not to be an artist. Perhaps it’s the symptom of being raised in a migrant working family; high hopes are often appeased with academic achievement and quantifiable successes. Yet, nothing stands in the way of inevitability and so, five years ago I found myself enrolled in art school dredging up questions as fundamental to me as my

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