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Nitasha Malik
The Things We Carried Across Oceans
Acrylic
61 × 61cm
Growing up in India, the sight of lemons, chillies and marigolds hanging outside homes and shopfronts felt so ordinary that I barely noticed them. Like many children, I questioned it more than I believed in it. How could a few flowers, a lemon and some chillies possibly protect anyone? It felt like just another superstition adults carried without explanation.
But distance has a strange way of turning ordinary things into emotional landmarks. After moving to Australia, I realised this was one of the first memories that surfaced when I wanted to paint something that truly felt like home. Not monuments. Not festivals. Just this quiet little object hanging at doorways across my childhood.
Over time, I understood that perhaps it was never really about superstition. It was about care. About people trying, in their own small human ways, to protect the happiness inside their homes.
This piece is my way of holding onto that feeling , a memory once ignored, now carrying the weight of belonging, protection and home itself.
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Exhibition dates 2 - 14 June 2026
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Please contact/email us for an additional domestic/international shipping cost. The artwork purchased from the exhibition will be available for collection after the exhibition period. Thank you for supporting our artists.
Nitasha Malik
The Things We Carried Across Oceans
Acrylic
61 × 61cm
Growing up in India, the sight of lemons, chillies and marigolds hanging outside homes and shopfronts felt so ordinary that I barely noticed them. Like many children, I questioned it more than I believed in it. How could a few flowers, a lemon and some chillies possibly protect anyone? It felt like just another superstition adults carried without explanation.
But distance has a strange way of turning ordinary things into emotional landmarks. After moving to Australia, I realised this was one of the first memories that surfaced when I wanted to paint something that truly felt like home. Not monuments. Not festivals. Just this quiet little object hanging at doorways across my childhood.
Over time, I understood that perhaps it was never really about superstition. It was about care. About people trying, in their own small human ways, to protect the happiness inside their homes.
This piece is my way of holding onto that feeling , a memory once ignored, now carrying the weight of belonging, protection and home itself.
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Exhibition dates 2 - 14 June 2026
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Please contact/email us for an additional domestic/international shipping cost. The artwork purchased from the exhibition will be available for collection after the exhibition period. Thank you for supporting our artists.