Guided by her material choices and formal subjects, Kaveri Raina establishes parameters for moments of confluence and resistance throughout her practice. Her abstract compositions, derived from reoccurring forms that she creates while drawing, emerge as triumphant and monumental. Applying graphite to paper with great pressure and repetition, she builds dense vessel-like forms and abstract figures, which she refers to as “image inventions.” She carries these shapes and drawing materials into her paintings on rough, unprimed burlap surfaces through and over which her mediums glimmer and hover.