IIMA alumna returns, with new paintings celebrating alma mater

Last year, when Lira Priyadarshini showcased her alma mater, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA) through the medium of oils on canvas, little did she realise that she would return dedicating another set of paintings to her alma mater which celebrates its golden jubilee year.

Calling it, 'Life and Times in IIMA: Take 2' Priyadarshini said, "Last year I had covered only certain aspects of life at IIMA. But over time I realised there were certain new aspects in IIMA, especially the new campus. And since I wanted to know how I could showcase the new campus, there are a specific number of paintings on the same."

While everyone talks about exposed concrete, Priyadarshini claims to have seen beyond just concrete. She said, "I saw colours. For instance, the oil titled, 'IMDC- new campus' depicts the linkage between the old and new campuses. It also showcases the tree of knowledge and the symbolic arch in a whole new avatar."

Priyadarshini, while explaining the presence of different sizes of moon in her paintings, said, "Just like a moon goes through phases, each phase is a point of time, and therefore I have the presence of half, crescent and full moons in my paintings, depicting that point of time and the view of the place, thereon."

While Priyadarshini has recently turned into an entrepreneur by registering her firm, 'Web of communications', she is also mom to a one-year-old.

Her current series of paintings which is on exhibition at IIMA's Centre of Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE), Vastrapur, was created in merely fifteen days.

Priyadarshini completed her paintings in three phases and took about three to four to five hours for completing each painting.
Interestingly, in one of her paintings Priyadarshini displays the lighter side of a student, such as the dunking of people from Dorm 5, where she had spent her first year during her time at IIMA.

Students who passed underneath the Dorm 5 would get wet, when notorious students from Dorm 5 would pour water over them and hide behind the walls.