“Calling Home” was inspired by the emotions experienced during the Covid 19 pandemic, a time of prolonged separation of over 2 years from my family in India. The vintage telephone invokes a sense of nostalgia, a symbol of communication from my childhood.
Method: The vintage rotary telephone was dismantled, cleaned and sanded. Then I spray painted it with 3 coats of plastic primer, followed by 6 thin coats of opaque white paint. The painted linen paper was glued on using archival acrylic medium, and then the phone was reassembled