Nursery Rhymes Turned Visual Vines

Using nursery rhymes as a starting point, this collection of poems captures the fickle nature of fantasies, reveries we often deem as reality or hard-hitting realities we so often shun as nightmares. I want to tug at the reader's emotion and intellect at the crossroads of literature, history, mythology, and art.

"Akshita Gandhi often supplements an idea with a quote or lyric, and it feels like flipping temporarily to a different page in her book. These stories, songs, and symbols form a rich visual and narrative vocabulary that has guided her artistic development. The complexity of her ideas resonate strongly in her work, which pulls from her many pages and presents itself cohesively on canvas" says Chloe Hyman, an art journalist.