The exhibition “In the Beginning” is the result of a selected collection of images inspired by the creation account described in Genesis chapter one.  In this series, Nanda uses different techniques of layering, depth perspective and movement to abstract the shapes and colours of nature as well as capturing the literality of it. These images strive to imagine terraforming from God’s perspective.

Nanda specifically uses motion to represent the span of time involved in the physical act of molding life into being. Similarly, her images are layered to symbolize the ever increasing diversity and complexity in the unfolding creation story. Her abstract images invite wonderment and anticipation of what is to come and carry the observer into a clearer focus of more literal representations of the completed creation, settled into familiar, recognizable shapes ready to be named.